Monthly Archives: February 2023
Winter Woes
For most of last week our temperature didn’t get above freezing. No surprise, I hate the cold, especially when accompanied by Wyoming’s vicious wind. Despite this, once I ignore the fact that I can’t feel my toes, and I ignore the discomfort of needing to go to the bathroom but deciding that it just isn’t … Continue reading
One More Snorkeling Post
There’s something sublime about snorkeling. Contacts in, face mask seated tight, snorkel in my mouth- check. Wade out to thigh-deep water and slip on the fins. Bend at the waist, push off and lift my feet. Instantly weightless, immediately transported to a whole new realm: surrounded, embraced, and welcomed. The dominant sound is of my … Continue reading
Traveling
When we landed in Miami on our way home last week, we had just about half an hour to make our next flight. We were both a bit nervous about making that connection, especially when I checked and found that we were arriving at D-9 and needed to depart from D-33. From past experience in … Continue reading
Thoughts from below Frederiksted Pier
It’s so easy to get discouraged. Look around this world and see the hate, the meanness, the pollution, threats of disease, the level of savage selfishness, earthquakes, economic ruin, a host of other ills plaguing our world. It’s not much of a stretch to think there is no God, or that there is, but He … Continue reading
