I've got at least four blog posts saved to draft. They all started out as good subjects to write about, but somewhere around the third paragraph each lost steam so I just chucked them into the draft folder. I hate that. I know that I'm notorious for starting projects and not finishing them for a…
NO I Don’t Know Where the Promenade Deck Is
It's 5 million humid degrees outside and it's 1 a.m. and my kids are "bored" and begging me to entertain them and I would LOVE to play "TAG with a Cattle Prod" and I'll be "IT" but I don't have a cattle prod and I already made the rule that we can't run in the…
Wet Inspiration
Walking home from dropping off the kids at school, the sky opened up on my head. A welcome change in weather, this rain. Hasn't rained since the last week of March. It's the end of September now. Just yesterday we were changing shirts every three hours because of the heat and humidity. Today the humidity…
It’s Africa Hot
Yeah, well, Africa Hot here in Africa just means the usual kind of hot.The hot where you have all the ceiling fans and the portable fans run-ning full blast all day and all night until the electric company shuts offthe power grid for about 2 hours so that the city can handle the sheervolume of…
The Deep Down 