Month: July 2011
Shopping With Audrey
We had a fun day minding our two grand daughters on Thursday. We spent a few hours with Audrey as she played shopkeeper in her ‘cubby house supermarket’. With some items from our pantry and a few cut-out items to sell, she earnestly engaged in the task of recommending different products for various purposes. Amongst […]
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African Wildlife Safari
It’s only three weeks now until I head off for a wildlife photographic tour to Africa. I’ll be traveling in a small group of photographers with Australian photographer David Burren. We expect to come home with many photographs of “The Big Five” (lion, elephant, buffalo, leopard, and rhino) but with the diversity of wildlife we’ll […]
Read MoreAnother Kiva Milestone
I am very proud that I have now impacted 535 people’s lives (plus their families) through providing Micro Finance Loans through Kiva.org. With loans averaging between only $25 and $50, I have contributed to helping people provide stock for their stores, keep their taxis on the road, buy cows to sell, improve their farms or […]
Read MoreTraveling With Technology
I was recently asked to write an article on our recent trip to Europe. I thought that it would be interesting to describe how we planned our trip using all the technology that we had available to us. This is our story: I was sitting in a bright yellow painted pub in Blarney, Ireland. As […]
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