Category: Random

Me talkin to myself

  • Look, I can quit anytime, OK? I don’t have to buy a blank book every time I see a new color/style. Just yesterday I bought an inexpensive one (less than $4!) to take traveling. Does this mean the spiral bound is my travel journal? Oh no no no. The travel journal is the hard-back green…

  • Getting ready for a three-week journey, I’m thinking about fresh ways to think. In that, I’m helped along by writer Pico Iyer, a fascinating author who at first blush seems to be writing about travel, but has something to say about various qualities of human experience. Here are a couple of quotes to give a…

  • Byron Cazier Palmer had a great laugh, a kind heart, a rational mind and a questing soul. He grew up in a small town in southern Alberta, Canada, became a civil engineer specializing in water, and worked all over the world: in Canada, the United States, Venezuela, Colombia and Kenya. He was the kind of…