Random thoughts, life lessons, hopes and dreams
I was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. I learned how to ride a bike in the lower left area of the map below, and I logged hundreds of miles each summer in the area toward the upper right, after we moved when I was about ten... Continue Reading →
I think we all know what I’m talking about, so I’ll skip the Corona Virus back story. I had two other posts written for today, but I grew not to like either of them. The first one was too virusy and the second one bordered on being math-ish. I figured that in these stressful times,... Continue Reading →
Note: This was originally published in 2013, before most of you were following. A complex series of minor events brought me back to this post yesterday and I decided to edit and rerun it. When I was growing up, family vacations were to two places and we drove to both. That’s where the similarity ends.... Continue Reading →
Last Thursday, I posted a series of doors found on the building that houses the Connecticut Historical Society Museum and several of the artifacts on display in the museum. Several comments on that post were from people with memories of cast iron stoves, both wood-fired and electric. History comes alive when we have a personal... Continue Reading →
This is the last opportunity to share some doors until after the ball drops in Times Square and we enter the third decade of this millennium. Norm is taking a couple of weeks off for the holidays, and he has suggested that we take today to look back at 2019 and post some of our... Continue Reading →
During our recent visit to Pittsburgh, our daughter Faith and I and my brother decided to visit the area of Pittsburgh known as the Strip District. Despite the potential for rolling or rising eyes, the Strip is mainly a retail area, featuring Pittsburgh paraphernalia i.e. Steelers, Pirates and Penguin gear, and food. I’m going to... Continue Reading →
Several years ago, while riding my bike on the ring road behind the airport. I suffered a blowout of my front tire. At the time, I was passing the New England Air Museum. The noise of the tire’s tube exploding was so loud, one of the museum staff drove over to me in a golf... Continue Reading →
It may seem ironic for me to be posting on this subject after my typo-ridden SoCS post on Saturday, but I decided on Friday that this would be my one-liner. Faith and I drove from Connecticut to Pittsburgh to meet-up with my brother, who drove in from Iowa. We hung out for the weekend, went... Continue Reading →
Tomorrow is Father’s Day here in the states, so we’re going to buy Dad a beer today as we consider Linda G. Hill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt: “Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is ‘social.’ Use it any way you’d like. Have fun!” If we were having a beer, you would still... Continue Reading →
