Grief and Gratefulness

Yesterday, January 22nd would have been my dad’s 91st birthday. I marked the day quietly, thinking of him and choosing to remember only the happy times we had. Dad around 1976 at the grounds of the American Cemetery in Fort Bonifacio Dad lived to the “ripe old age of 49.” I only had him in…

My Grown Up Christmas List

I’m writing this on the 10th anniversary of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary which claimed the lives of 26 people, twenty of them, children between the ages of seven and eight. To a parent who has lost a child, 10 years feels like a blink of an eye. Imagine losing a son or…

A Technology Sabbath

I surprised myself last week by doing three things I had never done before.  First, I went up to the mountains and stayed overnight at my good friend Chary’s house.  We had been planning this trip over the pandemic and finally it was happening. Her home was located in a protected area up in the…