Friday, January 29, 2016 – Miami to Manaus, Brazil I start the morning by sending our last-minute dog sitter, Kim Bailey a text. She says the pups finally ate some food last night. She also says that Snickers now has kennel cough so she’ll make sure he gets meds like Winston. The good news is …
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Thursday, 1/28/2016 – Detroit, MI Days Inn, to Miami,FL I am up before 3:45 because Mark is rooting around the room, excited like a kid at Christmas. We get ready and are downstairs by 4:25 for that 4:30 shuttle we were promised. There are 8 people in the lobby when the shuttle arrives at 4:55, …
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In July, 2105 Mark and I flew to Miami, checked into a motel and spent the afternoon lounging around a swimming pool. The motel elevator had two buttons, both of which read “UP,” so we thought that was a good sign for the start of our trip. Hours later, however, as were nodding off in …
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I am all for the idea of celebrating groundhogs and actually having a day where we take a few moments to see if one particular groundhog sees his shadow. The thing is that Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog we put so much faith in, is a pet groundhog which is likely removed from some comfortable hole or house …
Okay, it wasn’t my idea but I happen to think it’s a good one, celebrating squirrels one day a year! And according to people who keep track of this kind of thing, Wednesday is National Squirrel Appreciation Day. So here’s to the chubby squirrels. Here’s to squirrels that aren’t chubby enough. Here’s to the brave …
In November, my sister, Aby, said she was coming “home” to spend some time with my mother. Aby lives in Illinois, and during her visit “home”, she got to talking about what “home” really is, to her and to her children. We were at P.F. Changs. It was a bit noisy. I had a beer. And …
Prior to moving my mom into an assisted living place the end of May, my mom had lived alone in a condo for over 20 years. For most of those years, she lived independently and had kept up a place that had been the gathering place when my siblings visited from their distant states. Mom’s condo …
At some point a writer has to start writing again which means book marketing must come to an end. My book Something Furry Underfoot came out as an e-book in May 2013 and a paperback in September 2013 and I’ve done marketing on and off since then. My second to last marketing event was a short, …
Once upon a time, Mark decided to take his son, Arthur, his nephew, Terry, his good friend, Jack, and me, to Canada to go fishing. The location Mark chose was Kasba Lake in northern Canada. For months prior to our August 1 departure, new fishing lures arrived in the mail to my house about every third day. …
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First, thank you all for being part of International Author’s Day on July 18 and entering to win the free copy of Something Furry Underfoot. Congratulations go out to Bonnie H. for being the winner of the free, autographed paperback version. Everyone else that entered can still nab an e-version of my book for 99 cents …