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May 20, 2013 No Comments

The final "towel, pet" in our cabin aboard Royal Caribbean's Mariner of the Seas. Tomorrow morning we disembark. The Gulf of...

May 19, 2013 No Comments

In the past several days we've cruised past Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen, Eritrea, Somalia, and today Oman. "Another safe, uneventful night," says...

March 9, 2013 No Comments

This is how the steps collapsed under our feet. It was Thursday this week, the night of our anniversary. We came...

February 4, 2013 No Comments

A palm frond we discovered on the drive to Maya Beach It's rained almost nonstop the past three days. With no screens...

October 30, 2012 No Comments

"Yesterday, all my sorrows seemed so far away." The words of the Beatles song echoed in my head as I drove away...

October 27, 2012 No Comments

Last night at 8:45 Tom took me to urgent care. My voice gone, gut wrenching coughs overtaking me, it was time to...

October 20, 2012 No Comments

Tom is still sleeping. The sun has yet to come up. I sit in my comfy chair in its original spot surrounded...

October 13, 2012 No Comments

Last Saturday night, we attended a 50th birthday party for Tom's nephew. Tom drank. I drove as usual, which proved to be...

September 1, 2012 No Comments

Peculiarly, my memory is better now than when it was when I was 20 years old (so I think). When I turned...

August 14, 2012 4 Comments

My neighbor took this photo of me this morning in our yard. From a family with endless variations of heart disease,...