In my forty-odd years of employment, I kept a list of things I wanted to do, but for reasons of expense or time, I had to put off. “Fly an airplane” was one of them. “Write a novel” was another. … Continue reading
Category Archives: Travel
Inside or Outside?
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Housing prices in Phoenix have skyrocketed with the influx of Californians. With their excess cash, they are “California-ing” the houses including the addition of concrete block fencing in front of the house, and sometimes all the way across the front … Continue reading
Goldfield Mine, Apache Junction AZ
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It’s 1984 Again
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Big Brother is watching you. Or to be precise, he’s watching your Android phone. Specifically, if you have an Android cell phone and have shopped for any new app, then you’ll have a Google account. There, you can find all sorts … Continue reading
Salt River Canyon
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Soon It’s Gonna Rain
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So go the lyrics to a song from The Fantastics. I know because I sang them in a local production many years ago. Acting is but one of my many diversions. Music another. Similarly, Bullseye, ham radio, genealogy and the … Continue reading
Osaka Business Hotel
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While cleaning up my work-office-at-home, I found a few memories that challenge a neat and tidy filing. The purpose of these cards slipped under my hotel room door in Osaka Japan is obvious even if you don’t read the language. … Continue reading
My Neighborhood
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Picardy was the center of my universe growing up. We played, fought, slept and discovered much of life there. That was in the 1950s. World War II was a very fresh memory for the adults back then. Segregation was commonplace. And … Continue reading
Hatching a Haboob
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Warm air rises and, as it does, it cools and condenses. It then falls but may not reach the surface. That moisture, now warmed and perhaps boosted by more warm air from the surroundings, rises again. Virga – an observable … Continue reading
Diagonals
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