What's one more mountain to climb? Just another Sunday for Jane. With her summer assignment completed, Jane has more energy to conquer a...

Watching the Friends cast reunion 27 years after the first episode sparked a link in my mind between that show about friends in New York...

Her first day at T Rowe Price. A big job in the country's biggest city. Working on Park Avenue South, living in Chelsea. Not our GMBC...

Gaby left for UCLA in late September 2017. She left for T Rowe Price in New York in July 2021. What an incredible four years! Appleton...

"Seems like only yesterday" is such cliche yet it applies in this case. On March 31, 2016, Gaby and I visited UCLA for her first visit,...

Gaby concludes five years of life-changing experiences. Friday 11 June. It was hot in Los Angeles. It was even hotter on the Drake...

Fifty years ago, semi-active in the back of my mind, was a vision of attending UCLA. Then the vision activated a soapy, silly short story...

Today is the start of something big! Very big. Gaby has a new apartment in NYC. I remember my first apartment. It was 32 Schiller Street,...

Third day of training. Team barbecue and icy dip. Letter from Jane at the end of her training follows below. Saturday 29 May 2021 Dear...

Jane enters the hemlock forest of Juneau as Gaby takes up the concrete jungle of NYC. Jane is in Juneau, in training for her work...

Jane's Marquette graduation weekend, May 2018. Gaby flew in from UCLA for the intense, brief weekend, and flew back ill, and right into...

This is a busy, momentous month for us. Jane leaves Cristo Rey, leaves next for Juneau. Gaby surfs Costa Rica, heads for New York to find...

Eighteen years ago, Gaby was a lively, curious, engaging infant, full of life and ready for an incredible future. Jump forward and that...

December 25, 2020. Being with my family, all of us together, is the greatest joy in my life.

"Test everything; retain what is good. Refrain from evil of every kind." Thesselonians 1: 21-22 This is an era of distraction, much of...

November 29, 2020. Gaby, Pacific Ocean, 2020, Atlantic Ocean (Stone Harbor), 2010

Thirty years ago I was heading for my honeymoon at the American Club in Kohler. We came back to Appleton in time for Thanksgiving dinner...

Spending more face time with my brothers and sisters this year than in any other year in memory, via ZOOM, completing the Los Angeles...

September 12, 2020. As the perilous times continue, it is time to review real joy amidst the miasma. First, family. As these six months...

There are many reasons for me to give thanks to God. Getting out of Maryland is just one. When I started this blog in January 2019, at...