Cenotes in Yucatan
A simple internet search for “cenote” provides pictures of many seemingly magical turquoise paradises – like the photo below, taken at Yukzonodot cenote by us in 2013. But the cenotes of the Yucatan peninsula are...
A simple internet search for “cenote” provides pictures of many seemingly magical turquoise paradises – like the photo below, taken at Yukzonodot cenote by us in 2013. But the cenotes of the Yucatan peninsula are...
In my fairly large collection of books on World War II (most of which are in storage at the moment) there exists all manner of perspectives on the Normandy World War II D-Day invasion....
For reasons I do not recall, my mother ran an art enrichment program at my elementary school (good ole Valley Oaks Elementary, part of the Spring Branch ISD in Houston). She would bring in...
Boat ride on the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris on a beautiful day in July 2022
Mid-last year my wife says to me “Instead of just running in circles, why don’t you make every mile count?” She had just found Home for our Troops (HFOT), a non-profit organization that not...
The 43rd Decker Challenge was the third in-person race of the 2021-2022 Austin Distance Challenge (ADC), following the Daisy 10K and the 10-mile Run For The Water. Historically the Decker Challenge is a half...
In the days leading up to the 2021-2022 Green Bay Packers season, I read a biography of Vince Lombardi that I found in (of all places) a book store in lovely Bastrop, Texas (the...
Jumping out of a plane has never been on my bucket list. But it has been on my son Josh’s and his best friend Ryan’s since they were kids. So when Josh’s then-fiance’-now-wife Christabel...
Introduction We were first introduced to Elisabet Ney through a book given to us by our friend Steve. The book is A Twist at the End by Steven Saylor. It is historical fiction around...
The title of this article is a hat tip to my plan in April 2015 to run the Pikes Peak Ascent. I did indeed survive that insanity, mostly intact, and finished the race. Six...