POST 32/2025 GOSHEN IN: Miles later, we're back home. It has been a bit more than a week since we returned from a splendiferous time with friends in California. The time was grand. Walks were wonderful. Food, festive. Events engaging. Travel smooth. The weather was so unlike winter here that we've stayed in more than …
POST 28/2025 SOUTH HAVEN & PERRIN LAKE, MICHIGAN: "I'm going to fly my kite," I told a barber in South Haven a few years ago when he asked me what I was going to do next. I did it again last week, not the haircut, just flew our fifty-year-old kite. Sprite by name. We picked …
Post 17/2025 Goshen, Indiana: Friends. Friends are worth their weight in gold. Lynne and Noel are storing a few of our things. The evening before we left Carbis Bay, Marilyn and Steve had us over for dinner. Next day, Steve drove us to the St Erth train station for the five and a half hour …
Post 8/2025 Cornwall UK. This is my second of three posts looking at our experience away from home in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. We were in Carbis Bay, County Cornwall, UK when the March orders of the day all revolved around the novel coronavirus. Normal life shuttered to a stop. Before moving …
Post 4/2025. Our travel to Cornwall UK is coming up. Boarding Passes printed. Scores of preparations completed. A friend humorously shortened my recitation of visits to health care providers to "all the ologists." I'm grateful to all medical people, family, and friends here and in Cornwall for their well and travel mercies wishes, and my …
Post 40/2024. Goshen, Indiana. The state of being peaceful, calm and untroubled. Serenity. Tranquility. A sense of peace and quiet. How can that be in these storm-tossed, fevered, splintered October days, like similar onslaughts of September, August, July, ad infinitum? I do venture that a smile--and a spot of beauty--helps. The October Club The October …
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