Back from San Francisco
Had a nice time, spent a lot of time and energy exploring the city and surrounding area. You can see more of my pictures over in the gallery.
Pin Recently, an old friend started going through some old photo albums and scanning the photos to share them on Facebook. She and I were in the same church group back in those days, and many of the photos, despite being cringeworthy reminders of what we did in our younger days, have also brought back a…
Someone I know who works for OSU was checking out a few of the pictures I had sent her that I had taken around the campus, and they were popular enough that the folks working on a reunion website asked if they could use a couple of them. Granted, the fact that I would let…
Pin Many people give up on healing because they can’t see how far they’ve come. They can only see how far away their ideal self is from where they are now. Sadly, this ideal is often unrealistic. We are also blind to our progress because we didn’t set the baseline. We look at our status today and can only compare it to what we think we should be instead of looking back and seeing how much improvement there was.Â
In each of the last two posts I’ve written here, I’ve made mention of both using this time of year as a good excuse to show your appreciation to the important people in your life, and also offering friendship and support to them during troubled times. I had another, related, thought today. The most important…
On April 1, 2000 Angela and I went out on our first date. (Insert your own “fool” joke here) Eight years later, well, here we are. Happily married and enjoying our lives together. I point that out not so much as a way to point out how very lucky I’ve been since then (I have),…
I saw a replica sign that said “Irish Need Not Apply” at the Irish festival, and had some thoughts about that. I was reminded of those thoughts when I was listening to the Donegal X-Press CD I picked up over the weekend this morning. There’s a song on there called The Work Shanty that is…
This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
Subscribe to our Newsletter
See a sample before subscribing here
If you’d rather use RSS – that feed is here.
Mike,
Thank you for sharing your beautiful pictures. Looking at them made me feel like I was there. The sunsets are gorgeous. I took the liberty of looking at other travel pictures you have posted, the are just as beautiful. Thank you again for sharing your experience.
Have a great day.
Tina
Mike, glad you had a goot time in S.F. with your wife. Thanks for sharing the scenery with us.