The Cairo sun Crept through our window which nudged me to wake up… Okay Bridget’s hurried push in the right direction may have been the real reason why I got on my feet to take a shower. Despite last night’s great idea to finish the whiskey, getting out to breakfast was seemingly easy. When we [...]

When we arrived at the JFK airport in New York, five women were dressed in their burqa, the traditional black dress covering the entire body and face of a woman, with only the eyes showing. Jason called it the ninja wear. And as soon as I saw this, the diverse reality of where we were [...]

The Big Apple. Wall street. The Empire State Building. New York has much to see and luckily our travels to the great pyramids didn’t begin until Tuesday, so our group – Rob, Shayna, Chris, Ron, Jason, Lisa –  decided to head out a few days early to explore Gotham before the big trip to the [...]

When someone says they are a salesman, what do you think? Do you envision a church goer who can do no wrong? No. I’d say the majority of people have a negative perception.  We always base the worst case example to symbolize the group. And really, it’s not fair. The good sales people are friendly, [...]

For some unknown reason, my brother Jason decided to grown catnip in his garden this year. I was over there just the other day when he was winterizing it and I asked what one of the plants was. He cut off a couple stems for me and said it was catnip. Our cats haven’t been [...]

Worm Compost Surprises

Every Halloween I wait until last minute to come up with a costume idea. I always get these great ideas on Halloween night, but can never remember them by the time Halloween comes around again. This year I wanted to plan more ahead and came up with the idea of a few friends and I [...]

Bridget, Lisa, Weavers, Gaedtkes, and I are getting ready for our trip to Egypt in the next few weeks. I can’t wait, but I also wanted to get a better sense of Egyptian history. When we went to Peru earlier in the year, I read a great book about the Incas, and I was looking [...]