My son, Sean, turns 14 on Friday. (That’s him at right; he’ll probably be angry that I’m using his picture here, but at least it’s a great photo, right??!!) When we asked him to come up with a list of gift ideas a while ago, he said there wasn’t anything he really wanted this year. [...]
Read more →“Driving to Midnight Mass in Dublin on Christmas Eve” as recited by Bono in the early 1980s for radio. Merry Christmas to all!
Read more →From the Wall Street Journal today: “… an increasing number of stores are getting a jump on the Friday shopping hordes by opening on Thanksgiving. Some retailers say they are offering a convenience for shoppers who want to beat the madding crowds.” It was just about a year ago that I wrote this: Black Friday [...]
Read more →One of my favorite and most popular photos ever was featured today on Rand McNally’s “on the road” blog: I took that photo on Mother’s Day, 2006, and it’s been used several times on different sites. With that in mind, Happy Mother’s Day to all moms who follow this blog for some reason. We had [...]
Read more →Every year around this time, I wonder what the mailman is thinking. And the UPS delivery guy/gal. And the FedEx person, too. Because every year at this time, our house has to be one of the busiest stops on their routes. This picture, for example, is just a sample of what was delivered to our [...]
Read more →It used to be that Black Friday sales started at 7:00 am the day after Thanksgiving. Then stores started opening at 6:00 am. Then it was 5:00 am for a few years, and then some started opening at 4:00 am in the last year or two. This year, some stores at the Columbia Center Mall [...]
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