Year: 2022

  • Grandchildren

    Grandchildren

    I have two granddaughters, one is 4 months old today, the other is 2 and-a-half years old. The older one stayed with us this weekend. She loves going to the playground in the park, and…

  • 100th Anniversary

    100th Anniversary

    May 20th is the 100th anniversary of my paternal grandparent’s wedding. As a point-in-time image, it carries for me the feel of an August Sander photograph, marking a record of a family and generational differences…

  • Arrival

    Arrival

    100 years ago today, my maternal grandfather arrived on the Canadian Pacific Railway’s ship “Montcalm” in Quebec City, from Czecho-Slovakia, via Hamburg Germany and Liverpool England, enroute to Brooklyn New York, where his family had…

  • Halliburton
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    Halliburton

    This week we took our first “vacation” in over 26 months, to Halliburton, a couple hours north of where we live. A tentative step.

  • Freedom Isn’t Delivered in a Tank

    Freedom Isn’t Delivered in a Tank

    Putin’s intervention to wrestle Ukraine away from Nazism is underway. After a month, the general consensus of opinion is that Putin’s military ambitions are not going to plan. However, history suggests otherwise. As seen in…