Events that crossed my radar and memories, these many years later. This effort is aided and abetted by reviewing Wikipedia’s listings of each year’s events, in this case, 1977 and 1978. 1977 By January of 1977 I had survived the first semester of my freshman year at Georgetown, dealing with the questionable decision to study Chinese, …
These are photos and other things from Barb’s childhood scrapbook made mostly in 1966 when she lived in Italy. The commentary and captions are the best I can glean from the album and my own guesses. There are a few photos and things at the end from another scrapbook from 1968-1970. I need to get …
The three of us packed off on a trip to Hawaii: a full week on the Big Island in a condo at the Mauna Lani resort where Barb and I stayed in 1993. This was Allie’s first trip to Hawaii. We were eager to show her the best of our favorite island in the world…other …
Henry Goldberg retired from Barb’s office with much fanfare. There was a party at work on April 30 and then a few days later a dinner at El Tio Pepe in Baltimore. The celebration continued on May 4 with a dinner at the venerable El Tio Pepe restaurant in Baltimore.
Allie got her first cat, Perri, in September 2020 as a buddy in her new Boston apartment. Allie settled into her new Boston apartment in August 2020 and immediately became very eager to get a kitten to keep her company. After several weeks of intense but fruitless searching, she found a winning kitten, a one-eyed …
Photos from Barb’s holiday office party, December 18, 2003.
Part seven of my ongoing journal entries about life in the time of the 2020 Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Part One (Jan-Mar, 2020) is here. Part Two (April 2020) is here. Part Three (May 2020) is here. Part Four (June 2020) is here. Part Five (July 2020) is here. Part Six (August 2020) is here. September …
Picking up the second half of 1996 from the end of September when we moved into our house at Paddington Court. It was a big year. At the end of September, we finally moved into our new home at 10316 Paddington Court. We used Student Services for the short move (because they were cheap) and …
Allie, Barb and I took a summer roadtrip to upstate New York, making stops at Hyde Park, the Mohonk Mountain Inn, Cooperstown, and Niagara Falls. Sunday, August 24 We drove from our home on Paddington Court to Poughkeepsie, going via Harrisburg and Pennsylvania to avoid I-95 and New Jersey. We found our hotel (nothing special, …
I woke from an oddball dream this morning with some questions rattling around my head. It’s been a couple of months since I cracked open Barb’s grandmother’s scrapbook and started to tumble down the genealogy rabbit hole. It’s been a few weeks since I finished transcribing the scrapbook into a series of posts and added …