Surviving the Crazy Twins

My struggle with the crazy twins that haunt me: Bipolar Disorder and Alzheimer’s Disease.
It’s All About Family: Part II

It’s All About Family: Part II

When it finally quit going wrong Just good folks.  That’s how I’d describe the 150 or so people, overwhelmingly Canadian, who attended our Reist/Archer family reunion near the little farming communities of Didsbury and Olds north of Calgary. Sure, there...
Gonna’ take a sentimental journey

Gonna’ take a sentimental journey

A sentimental journey home! Cruise the blogosphere for for any length of time and, count on it, you’ll come across a bunch of sites devoted to travel. Love Travelling.  Dan Flying Solo.  A Broken Backpack.  The Path Less Pedaled.  Nowhere.  The list goes on and...
Kilts, bag pipes and drums

Kilts, bag pipes and drums

Against machine guns and poison gas After dinner here in Oban, our gang walked back to our B&B along the water front, past a small, grassy square.  There were about 20 men and women with bag pipes and drums, playing, marching and rehearsing for what, I assumed was...
On the water front

On the water front

The Lord still inhabits the praises of his people Last winter my sister, Linda, and her husband came to Colorado for a visit.  Don’t ask me how, but they managed to wedge it in amongst all their other globe girdling trips.  As I’ve said of them before,...