We finished our cruise early last Thursday morning and were in the air most of the day trying to get home from Providence, RI. Thankfully, the flights both ways, both to and from the cruise ship, were on time and…
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Yesterday morning, September 11, 2024, we were having a bite of breakfast in our cabin as we began the final day of our cruise on the southern tip of Rhode Island and Massachusetts. We were on the American Liberty, the…
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Today was a busy day. Three hours in a ferry heading to and then returning from Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. Of course, the ferry was late (both ways), traffic was really intense on the the islands, the unknown was a…
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Well, Janet and I finally got away for a little break. After my last post about writing 2,000 articles, I thought about taking a sabbatical until we get back home, but my friends were correct that I would undoubtedly run…
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Well, tonight marks my 2000th post on TBTB. Not 200, mind you - but 2000! I would never have thought that things would have continued this long. For those of you who may not have been here from the beginning,…
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Many years ago, my brother Doug gave Kristin, our eldest daughter, a large framed poster for her graduation. It isn’t just large, it’s very large, like 6 feet wide and 4 feet tall. It’s in French and has an image…
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Yesterday, Janet and I celebrated our 51st wedding anniversary. It was a special day for the two of us, but in all honesty, we didn’t really DO anything special. It is enough to just be together. I guess that is…
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The last several days I have been up in Cleveland working with a leadership team that I visit in person every other month or so. This time, I was blessed to have Janet travel with me, in addition to Lori,…
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I grew up in an all-white elementary school. Well, that is until 7th grade when there was a small forced integration of several students who were brought into the neighborhood from an area east of Beverly, the community we grew…
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