my nice little life

  I truly hope that you have a wonderful Christmas – and that the New Year is even better than the year before.  Merry Christmas everyone.

We had been home from Spain for less than 48 hours, still suffering from a fairly severe bout of jet lag (it felt like we had a pretty good hangover).   Funny, don’t you think, that we would not feel well at home when we had even been able to escape North Africa without so much [...]

Okay.  Let’s start with this.  I’m an idiot.  Today we got to do something, go somewhere, few people get to experience.  And what’s rule #1 when traveling?   Always carry a camera.  And did I?  No.  Why?  I’m an idiot.  Let’s start over.  I guess this tone is a bit too flippant for what we witnessed [...]

A few years back, we had for neighbors a very nice young couple who were just finishing up their advanced degrees at Wake Forest University.  We liked them.  Several times we shared meals or played card games at either their home or ours.  They came to our parties.  They were intelligent, attractive and personable.  They [...]