Today is not a good day for me. Or for my husband. Or for some of our friends back in Ohio. Today is the funeral of one of my husband’s best friends. I met Joe the same night that I met my husband. He, Joe, another male friend of theirs named Mike, Joe’s then girlfriend, and her sister were all… Read more »
So, I’m heading off on another adventure today. I’m sure you can tell based on the title of the post where I’m off to. I had visited Spain and Portugal a long time ago when I was in my late 20s for a “I-just-quit-my-job-and-before-I-start-the-next-one” break. (I used to do that a lot – travel somewhere in my break between quitting… Read more »
As noted in my previous post, my trip to Florida to follow Adam Ant around on his Florida gigs hit a big snag named Irma. On Wednesday, after I received the evacuation notice from my hotel in Ft. Lauderdale, I decided to opt out of the fourth show in Jacksonville and try to get home earlier than Monday evening, figuring… Read more »
Hello from sunny Fort Lauderdale! Yes, I am in Florida , the state that has a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane bearing down on it. Why, you ask? Well, I decided awhile back to do a little road trip and see a few concerts by Adam Ant. I’m not exactly sure who on his team is responsible for scheduling four concerts… Read more »
Here in Austin, we really were fortunate over the weekend. Hurricane Harvey (later downgraded to a Tropical Storm while parked over us) only brought some wind and rain to the area. It hardly even rained 45 minutes to the west of us – which is incredibly fortuitous because that means there was no rain upstream from us. So we didn’t… Read more »
Well, I’m back in Austin and apparently just in time for the arrival of Hurricane Harvey to hit Texas. We’re supposed to get quite a bit of rain and we likely will have some flooding here; but we’re pretty far from the coast so we don’t have the concerns about the storm surge in addition to a bunch of rain…. Read more »
The events the past weekend in Charlottesville were pretty upsetting to me. There was other bits of upsetting news as well, one of which was that Nile Rodgers was hospitalized. About a year ago or so, I got to go see Nile Rodgers open up for Duran Duran. At the time, I wrote about how his battle and triumph over… Read more »
These are some very troubling times here in the United States. The events of this past weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia have shaken my belief in a world that could move past tribalism and hatred and whatever fuels grown men to ram cars into crowds of people. How are we still at the point that we deny the humanness of every… Read more »
My last couple of posts were sad stories about skin cancer. I figured I would switch it up for this post and relate something not slightly depressing… I’m switching roles in my company, which for me is very good news. I was getting really stressed reporting to a boss that had no clue on how to manage a team and… Read more »
In a recent news story out of Tampa, a widow describes how she lost her husband to amelanotic melanoma. Spreading from a lesion on his calf into the lymph system, the cancer ended up claiming the man’s life after a 3-year battle against the disease. He had a lump in his groin that signified the spread of the cancer and… Read more »