On our way home from Thanksgiving in Phoenix with son Hunter, as we started up the last summit on I-10 before descending into the LA Basin, we snapped this picture… Read More →

We’re entering uncharted territory this month. Every major American sport is in season, and for the first time ever, soccer’s World Cup is being contested starting November 20. Of course,… Read More →

Ron collected magnets of places he visited as he traversed the country in his beat-up Chevy Nova in his early adult years. When he and Donna moved into their new… Read More →

  Yes, whoops they did it again.   The Bemer team in the eight-cyclist Race Across America, previous recordholders, set yet another record this past June in the world’s most… Read More →

Rise of the Phoenix We visited our son, Hunter, who graduated from college and got a big boy job and apartment this past year, in Phoenix in early July. We… Read More →

It’s officially summertime. Time for good memories….and bad. For Ron, he has vivid memories of one bad summer. Ron remembers being 14 years old in the suburban Midwest, living next… Read More →

A Seedy Proposition Many of you know, Ron grew up in the St. Louis area.   He tells the story periodically about the annual evening family excursion to downtown St…. Read More →

So you think you know when Spring arrives.   Maybe, maybe not.   We all casually watch the news every year in late March to see when Spring begins based… Read More →

Any of you smarties out there know the derivation of the phrase “Luck of the Irish”?   Its source is the gold mining fields of California of all places.  … Read More →