I am starting again. It has been some months since I last posted comments online. With a new year just started, it is time to get back into the blogging sphere again.

I don’t know how your day passed but mine passed with several stories on the radio about sons and fathers. I suppose the theme common to all the stories ran something like I hated my father when I was a kid but when I grew up all I saw was this sorry old man and I couldn’t hate him anymore. Continue reading →

Just returned from taking a couple who had never been to the States on a Taste of America tour. Starting in New York, we made our way up to Boston,  down to Washington,  across to Dallas-Fort Worth,  on to the Grand Canyon,  Bryce and Zion,  Las Vegas,  Yosemite,  Carmel and San Francisco. What a beautiful and wonderful country we live in — and how fortunate we are to live here. The one comment that we heard from them again and again was how kind and friendly Americans are. Waiters,  shop assistants,  hotel clerks all went out of their way to make them feel comfortable. Two thumbs up America.

I have allowed this blog to slip partly because if I acknowledge in my more honest moments that I am the only one who reads it. But with my semester at an end and with so much to say, it is time to get going again. The big news this week was the assassination of Osama Bin Laden. I suppose we all fear retaliation right now.