I'm on a tear folks, don't stop me now, I'm just getting warmed up. << MORE >>

What's it like living in Mexico people ask me. I tell them it's like nothing else they've ever done, I can't explain it, I can't justify it, all I can say is "try it, you might like it - or you may hate it". << MORE >>

So, what do you do with all your spare time now that you're retired comes the question often asked for several years now. You'd think people would get tired of me making up silly answers to try to satisfy their curiosity - but no.<< MORE >>

I often talk in "word pictures", a technique I suppose I first became acquainted with as a kid sitting in a Baptist church. The ministers are good at leaving lasting images in our minds of what they want us to remember. Today I'm going to try to create a word picture for you as an analogy to what is happening in Mexico, in the US and in much of the world.<< MORE >>

A bit of expansion of the last trip home and a review of some differences between our two countries is probably in order, I skimmed over some things due to all the other events happening, so this will take us back to my normal "say what?" sort of adventure. While I've touched on a few things, I'll "touch them up" a bit.<< MORE >>

Often we don't recognize life's great adventures until we view them in our rear view mirror of life. A few of the people you meet in life are truly the great treasure and adventure when we think back. Oh, they're most often not the "pop culture" icons we might chance to meet, or a famous person you might shake hands with. << MORE >>

The recent events required a hasty trip which ultimately worked out, but nearly turned into a disaster. My neighbor is returning to the Great Frozen North after Easter, so I decided to do a quick trip to TX and get the new weather station this week before Easter while she was still here to watch the house and take care of Max. I ordered the station and some other things and they were on their way to the warehouse in TX when I got the call on Sunday March 4th that Mom had passed and her funeral was to be the following Saturday, so the planning suddenly took on a new dimension. << MORE >>

One of life's adventures is the one that none of us look forward to taking; the last long journey home to bury a parent, in this case my Mother. She was an extraordinary person and it would take a book to chronicle her life, from her birth to a farm family in Nebraska in 1915, the Great Depression years, the war years and to a full life in Denver, she saw changes in the world, in technology and history few of us can imagine. So, if you will allow me a last remembrance.<< MORE >>

Just a couple of notes to let y'all know Max and I are still alive and well in deep central Mexico. I've been remiss in not keeping up to date with "adventures" although there have been few since our last meeting that would qualify as genuine white knuckle "hold my coke and watch this" events.<< MORE >>

Not to leave y'all hanging with regards to my banking fiasco, I have good news and darn well earned I might add, but good news - I'm not broke, well not rich, but not broke which I realize is only good news to me, but being the warm little fuzzball I am (normally) I just wanted to "share"?<< MORE >>