Trip to London for 2018 New Year’s with Barb and Allie, staying with Ada. Sunday, Dec. 31 The plan for this New Year’s Eve Day is to mostly take it easy, heading down to Fortnum & Mason for some (now) traditional New Year’s shopping and tea, then back to Ada’s to prepare a nice dinner. …
A recent Washington Post Magazine article by Jonathan Rauch, who also has a forthcoming book, reminded me about the Happiness U Curve. It’s the notion that in many people’s lives, satisfaction starts out high, dips in middle age and then rebounds and grows in later years. The theory has been brewing since at least the …
Today is my 60th birthday. Most of my other birthdays have floated past without much notice or thought. This one feels different. I’ve noticed it coming for a while, and now it feels something like a milestone. At least it seems to deserve a moment of reflection and assessment. I’m hoping this marks the approximate …
Trip to London for 2018 New Year’s with Barb and Allie, staying with Ada. Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017 For the third year in a row, we ventured to London for a New Year’s break with Ada. Allie arrived home from Boston on Friday evening, Dec. 22, and we had a nice quiet Christmas together. On …
Trip to Boston with Barb to celebrate both girls’ birthdays, for Barb to see Allie’s place, and generally commune with our newly working daughter. Then Bill went on to Nova Scotia for week including music of the Celtic Colours festival. Previous Day | Trip Home Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017 Today’s plan was to drive to Baddeck …
Trip to Boston with Barb to celebrate both girls’ birthdays, for Barb to see Allie’s place, and generally commune with our newly working daughter. Then Bill went on to Nova Scotia for week including music of the Celtic Colours festival. Previous Day | Next Day | Trip Home Sunday, October 8 Picked up my Alamo rental …
Trip to Boston with Barb to celebrate both girls’ birthdays, for Barb to see Allie’s place, and generally commune with our newly working daughter. Then Bill went on to Nova Scotia for week including music of the Celtic Colours festival. Next Day | Trip Home Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017 Barb and I drove to BWI, …
Cousin Susan Barnett passed away last year and is remembered in a loving document put together by husband Jim Rech and presumably others. Yesterday, Jim shared the “book” consisting of Susan’s collected Xmas letters and many photos. I always enjoyed receiving annual editions of “Life With Father Wreck” and was one of those that always …
It’s been a long-running joke in our family that the ancient Duncan clan motto is “Disce Pati”, or “Learn to Suffer”. The Internet says it’s true (Wikipedia, Index of Clans), at least sort of (Clan Duncan), so it must be true, at least sort of. We’ve long transmogrified the phrase to “Disco Pattie”, I think …
For my last day in Segovia, we started with a little shopping. Laurie and I walked through the touristy Old Town area looking for some local thank you gifts for Laurie, Maggie and Juan, and some things to take home. We came across a Segovia-based store (modern, black and white store with wine in rear) …
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