Monthly Archives: November 2023

I spent another 10 minutes reading yet again another BBC article .This one is about the indigenous Kogi people in my wife’s country of birth way down south in Colombia .The Kogi have generally attempted to avoid contact with other … Continue reading →

It’s Thanksgiving Eve and just outside of town a very nice married couple park their very small food trailer on the side of a main thoroughfare every day except Sunday to sell their wares … home made tamales , taco … Continue reading →

Couple of weeks ago someone from the past made contact with me … No… not THE past… just my past … and a dormant forty year plus memory came back to life . It kind of caught me off guard … Continue reading →

Well it’s happened again . We got into a discussion with someone selling us tools that we want to ship to South America . When we mentioned the tools were going to South America and that we had a house … Continue reading →

Six years have passed but it seems like yesterday that half the country was laying claim that they really didn’t want somebody politically correct . I always viewed that statement to be a disguise to hide from the fact that … Continue reading →

I do a lot of packing and shipping of items from tools to toys and I recycle an awful lot of news papers in that effort. There is a nice lady who is a rare breed these days as she … Continue reading →

Lately by 5:25  a.m every morning I’ve found myself finishing up an enjoyable half hour or so of some very good reading on the BBC web site. Travel  , culture and arts , there are indeed some beautiful articles to … Continue reading →

My weekends can start any time I choose and this week it started on Thursday when I found myself in line for tires at the local Ford Garage at 6:20 a.m. to await the 7 a.m. opening time . It … Continue reading →