the road less traveled

having used up my quota of allotted space for photos on this blog i am now  here  instead. come visit with me. stay for a bit. leave a me...

every place we go to God gives us some people who bear our burdens with us. we have found joy and consolation in your love, and our hearts ...

in true chinese fashion, our turkey marathon begins the night before.  HOM makes his farewell bird. we have old friends over. the talk ...

so quickly, and not quickly enough. twenty years ago i did not dare think we would come to this. an impudence it would have been then to pe...

i tell myself, only half desperately, this is it . the packers come next week. before i fully recover from jet lag before i truly and adeq...

one tapestry needle one candle flame a pair of tweezers one new hard cellphone case countless internet how-to's several memories of r...

the iPhone battery drops 1% every 4 minutes in singapore. the same battery was 82% last night and 76% tonight here in the states. go figur...

i meet people from home. how have you been? what did you do in the past six years? the subtext says, have you been bored? how did you toler...

HOM punctures a tire on the highway. as he waits for the auto recovery people, he meets: traffic police cars escorting the trucks into th...

i visit a friend in hospital. there is an entire bank of gantries blocking access to the elevators. please register yourself first, t...