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A few years ago I took a business trip to Southern California. I had some extra time one night, and I had a pretty nice car–Hertz automatically upgraded me to a Ford Escape. So I decided to take the name of the car to heart and to drive where the road would take me. I […]
My niece Katie just turned 13, which means that I turned an age that I’d rather not think about. When my Katie was just about 24 months old, I used to love to pick her up and she loved being picked up. She had just learned to talk around that time; she’d only say individual […]
This blog post is originally from August 2005. ————————————————————————————————————– Like many of you, I’ve been riveted to the TV the last few days, looking at the effects of Katrina. It was just a few years ago that I decided to treat myself to a little trip. I happened to see that the Giants were playing […]
I do those 30 and 60 mile bike tours every now and then. A few years ago I did the 60-mile bike tour for MS in New York. The weather on the day of the ride was absolutely perfect for the ride. Arrows posted all along the route showed us the way to go. The ride […]
A few years ago, I moved to my apartment in Long Island. Now, I’d lived in NJ for all my life. I was born in Princeton, grew up in Princeton Jct., went to college in New Brunswick, went to grad school in Newark, worked in South Plainfield, Piscataway, and Basking Ridge, went to church in […]
This review is for two separate books: God Loves Mommy & Me and God Loves Daddy & Me, both written by Bonnie Ricker Jensen and illustrated by Laura Watkins. Both books are sturdy board books that are not too big but not too small. The cover is thick padded cardboard and the pages are all […]
While most of the children’s books I’ve had the opportunity to review have been for children who have started to read already, All Aboard the Ark is a great book to read to infants and toddlers who maybe aren’t quite ready to read yet, but certainly recognize pictures in a book and who may even be learning […]
It’s been a while since I’ve written a blog post that’s not a book review. My apologies to those who enjoyed my earlier writing, it’s just that my life has been a bit busy lately and quite frankly a little boring that there wasn’t much for me to ruminate on. All that’s changed in the last four […]
We used to sing hymns as a family growing up. My dad and mom would sing from a Chinese hymnal, while my brother, sister, and I would sing from an English hymnal. Every time we sang this hymn “One Day”, my dad would put down his Chinese hymnal and pick up an English one. He […]
Today’s post is about Valentine’s Days and Flowers. But just a heads-up that I won’t be writing what you might be expecting me to write. I still remember like it was yesterday. February 14, 1992. It was a Friday. And it was the worst day of my life. Mom had been sick with cancer. She’d […]