Monthly Archives: January 2016
Pleasant Valley Wednesday – or Malabar in Winter
In the middle of last week I was on the road to a conference in Wooster, OH. This is not a long road trip for me, but starting with a quarter tank of gas I ended up needing more before getting there. As I pulled off the freeway the first sign I see points off […]
The Old Barn
For Christmas one of my brothers gave me a pen. A nice pen, with a wooden barrel. The cool part… well better than cool actually… the wood came from the old barn. Growing up on a farm used to be such an ordinary thing in the middle of the US. And growing up on […]
2015 Reminisces; 2016 Forecasts
2015 was. My wife and I welcomed a daughter-in-law and three new grandsons. The grandsons were at the wedding (yet to be born) and no, the new daughter-in-law is not one of their mothers. In November I lost an uncle. My mother’s health has been tricky. Life ebbs. 2016 is. The UN has decided this should be […]
Gulliver's Pulse 
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