The front door with its smudges of fingerprinting dust provides a clue that something bad happened there. My neighbor, Dave’s trial is at the end of its 2nd week. His estranged wife, Bonnie, lived around the corner with their two children. Bonnie was stabbed to death in April 2015 while the children were in the house.…
On Kodiak, the second-largest US island, you can count on wind and water. If you’ve watched the Discovery Channel’s “Deadliest Catch,” you may recognize the area since several fishing boats have their home port in Kodiak. Of course, it’s an island and surrounded by water, but there’s also precipitation. While Kodiak’s weather tends to be milder than…
This question bothered me all day yesterday, a gorgeous summer-in-fall day. In fact this question has been bothering me since the weekend when we had two absolutely spectacular autumn-colored days with very warm temperatures. I got to enjoy Saturday set up outside KISMET by Caryn, standing right in front of Kismet’s beautiful Secret Garden doing my favorite…
My first assignment in the Army was as a platoon leader in Mannheim, Germany. The US was still involved in a cold war with the Soviet Union. My unit had HETs—heavy equipment transporters. Due to their size, weight and cargo, often M60 tanks, driving on the autobahns required special clearances from the Germans and the…
The hardest working, most productive people in the world live in Germany, according to a recent study. The study concluded it had something to do with that fact that Germany is also the country where people take the most vacation. Taking this study to heart, my co-blogger Joan S. Grey and I are going to…
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