Last summer Carl suggested that we take the boys on a historic discovery tour and vacation. Generally we make our summer plans based on theme park and adventure journey contexts and to be honest most of our vacations are based on those kind of thrilling experiences that are pure commercial spectacle and entertainment. Of course [...]
New York gets more interesting when you are chasing something. It’s possible to chase someone, looking for an elusive love that keeps slipping out of your grasp, but it’s better that the someone remain nameless, because people often get away, or they can be caught and you might end up finding yourself married to the [...]
Make certain to have a safety net. That is what the financial advisers and analysts keep saying. You hear it over and over again. In this day and age are they aware of the fact that the financial safety nets have been pulled down to buy groceries and to make car payments and to just [...]
Things were tough at my job, so it’s not like I just up and decided to quit, but sometimes you have to walk through the open door and into what ever the next portion of your life is. In this case I had barely stepped off the plane from Salt Lake City, lawyers from one [...]
This is where she came in, a storm dancing on the edge of a knife, and a night balanced on the edge of a song. She said she did not come to stay, and no one stays here for very long, because the sweetest places are also the most precarious places, and for that night [...]
There are places high in the mountains, low along the coast of the Atlantic and plenty of green in between to explore in the state of Georgia. The history is rich with stories of winning and loosing battles and rebuilding communities. The state is also shining with pride in these modern times as it has [...]
The Eastern U.S. city of Philadelphia is similar to many Eastern cities of the country, in that there is an appreciation not only of the arts and music, but of the history of those arts and that music that is shared willing and enthusiastically with all those who come to visit the city for the [...]
We were going to Los Angeles first, to visit Allen, a long time friend and his wife Carey, when we got a call from Allen and he told us to pull up this hotel website http://www.hotelsburbank.com: on our Iphone, because he found us a place for the night at a Burbank hotel and this site [...]
I grew up just outside of Atlanta, Georgia and as a child I can remember my grandparents taking me into the city to see a movie at the Fox Theater. They always made such a big deal about it and I always had a great time but didn’t realize what a major landmark the theater [...]