Walla Walla, WA July 15, 2021 During our three-day interlude between Walla Walla weekends, we discovered (or re-discovered) a few jewels in Oregon’s crown. As our cousin Ashley steered us right by sending us to Joseph last Friday, she hit the bullseye advising us to visit Hood River this week. Till then, we’d never been […]
Portland, ORJuly 13, 2021 After a beautiful Mass Sunday morning at St Patrick’s, a lovely couple hours with Ashley and Alice, and some lunch at the Walla Walla Bread Company, we swung by Brook & Bull, grabbed a few bottles of wine, and headed into the great expanse of northeast Oregon. Over a couple hours under […]
Walla Walla, WAJuly 10, 2021 Throughput their lives, the Apollo astronauts had seen the moon. Throughout their mission, they were in constant contact with the earth. When they were in trouble, they could ask questions, and get help. But the Lewis and Clark Expedition had no idea where they were going or what they would […]
Seattle, WA July 8, 2021 Today we’re in transit. To pilfer Pascal, I’ve no time to write a short note, so I have to squeeze in a long one. We’ve just come off a flight from Atlanta, on our way to Walla Walla. Our connecting flight is delayed about an hour, so we’re camped in […]
Atlanta, GA July 4, 2021 In 1999, not long after I started working for Delta Air Lines, Rita and I went to Vancouver. We spent a couple days there, then drove up the spectacular Sea to Sky Highway, to enjoy a few more in Whistler. One of them was July 4, when we walked through several […]
The reason I write is to gather my thoughts, and to retain a record of what I see, think, and do. These recollections are sometimes useful to me and, perhaps, may occasionally or eventually be of interest to somebody else. As time permits, or when I feel too uninspired or lazy to write something new, […]
Munich, Germany May 8, 2007 I am writing from my room at the Park Hilton, between the Isar River and the Englischer Garten. A short walk away, within the park, is a biergarten that features oompah girls serving steins so large they have an undertow. Last night, it pulled us under. After our morning meetings, my […]
Munich, Germany May 7, 2007 A couple years ago, I became the Delta representative to the Unisys Cargo User Group, a consortium of international airlines that use Unisys’s revenue management software and systems to optimize cargo inventory and pricing. Twice each year, Unisys hosts the member carriers to discuss issues, concerns, challenges, and successes with […]
Atlanta, GA June 19, 2021 A few weekends ago, our nest briefly emptied. Our elder son remained in his college town on the plains, while the younger one took to a friend’s lake house in the mountains. Even their parents flew the coop…escaping for a few days to higher elevation, where no one would ask […]
Hendersonville, NCMay 31, 2021 An advantage of going to college a few hours from home is you are able to return on short notice, without much trouble. Among the disadvantages is that home can easily come to you. This week, a part of it dropped in on Alexander. Tuesday, his father stopped by, to spend […]