Life

Superbowl perspective

The Superbowl is over for another year. People are happy or sad about the outcome, based on their life-long affinity for one team or another, or sometimes based more on whim. If someone won last year, that team is sort of automatically served up as the Goliath that...

Missing Miss Raya Buckets

Jul 30, 2024

Miss Raya Buckets stepped over the Rainbow Bridge earlier this year, where the can opener is always spinning. I sure miss her!

Spin the globe: Bogota

Mar 24, 2024

Back to Bogota, for the first time since 2016. Feelin the love, reliving the past, catching up to today. Filled my soul right up!

Exploring Campania

Nov 14, 2023

Snippets from explorations around the capital of Campania and environs, and not a lot of talk. These are 1000-word scenes for sure.

Napoli, Nuova

Sep 25, 2023

We’re just getting settled into Napoli and finding our way around these enormous hills! So far, so very good, including standard-setting pizza.

Back to the beginning

Sep 15, 2023

I returned to the place where I wrote my first blog posts, twelve years ago. This was also my first work travel since before COVID. Hazy reflection ensues.