Golf at Cat Ghaut

I need to write some Nevis stories before I leave on my next vacation tomorrow morning. Nevis is a very small island. It's NOT a big place. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYtTb23PIAs There is a guy on Nevis who knows everything anyone would ever need to know about Nevis. How do I get an international driver's license? Where is …

Welcome to PDX, Your Winds Will Gust to 58 MPH

Sorry it has taken me so long to check in upon my return from one of my most favorite vacations ever. I haven't known how to blog about it. So I will write it as I have been telling it. I will start at the end. We had such a fabulous vacation. Nevis is a …

We Got A Floater!

Upon my return from spring break in Palm Springs, I read Mike Calahan's story about his parents' anniversary (you should be following him, if you're not -- go do it, we'll wait) and it reminded me of some of the more twisted O'Connor family moments and one of those happened in Palm Springs. In 2003, …

I’m Right Here!

No, further down. Down here, in Southern California. I'm in Palm Springs for spring break. It took some doing but I'm here. Monday night after work I went to the mall to get a bathing suit. I tried on a few at Macy's and one was okay. I didn't cry. I didn't get in a …

Portland in Black and White

Saturday night Derwood and I went to dinner at Toro Bravo in NE Portland, I have heard that it is always crowded and doesn't take reservations. It opens at 5:00, so we went at 4:45 so we could just scootch in when it opened. We arrived early and found that there were dozens of people …

The Gospel Christmas Concert Yule Log

For the second year in a row, my sister Molly organized a festive night out to attend the Oregon Symphony's Gospel Christmas concert which is a fabulous arm waving, hand clapping night of Hallelujahs, fun for believer and non-believer alike! This year my friend Danni came with me. We drove downtown to meet the rest …

7 Things I Learned on My Trip to Denver

1. Southwest Airlines has a system. I don't really know what it is. It involves columns. It involves the letters A, B, C and numbers 1-5, 6-10.... see the pattern? It goes up to 30 and then sometimes up to 60. And they call the A's to stand by the columns and then they call …

More Honeymoonage and Honeymoon Resolutions

I just ran the Google on "I am bored at work." One of the results was a list of 30 things to do if you are bored at work. Two of the items on that list were "blog". So that's really only 29 things to do but who's counting. Fine. I'm bored. I will blog. …

Air Travel and Air Shopping

We have returned from the honeymoon and I will write a few blogs with pictures to tell you all about it. Consider it a slide show of a trip you didn't go on delivered right to your home, that way you don't have to come all the way to my house for some fondue and …

And I’m Off!

I'm off on vacation. The girls and I are leaving after work tonight for 10 days of beach and golf and tennis and food and wine and friends and family! I went in and turned my notifications off so I won't get a million blog emails when I return and in so doing, deleted one …

The Camping Trip: Blog 2

I think the problem with the camping blog posts is that I went camping with Camper Man. If you sent me out in the wilderness alone, this would have been way funnier. The amount of panicking I did with Deren is nothing compared to the frenzy I would have whipped up for myself. When the …

The Camping Trip: Blog 1

I left the office Friday night not knowing much about my weekend other than I knew I was going camping at the Jones Creek Camp Ground on the Wilson River. I looked up Jones Creek and found out that it is equipped with vault toilets. I had to run the Google on that. I can't …