Over The Hill

February 2nd, 2009. George has started a new gig; volunteering for the National Philharmonic which is the orchestra-in-residence at the Mu...

Bright Sun after Heavy Snow by Jane Kenyon The Boat of Quiet Hours) Copied from The Writer's Almanac . A ledge of ice slides from the ea...

January 26th. The spring semester at UMBC started today and we dropped Elroy off yesterday but before we gave him back we explored a new pa...

Patapsco Valley State Park Description (from MidAtlanaticHikes.Com ): The Patapsco Valley State Park is a long narrow park that stretches f...

January 24th. Jane had a business meeting to attend the second week in January in San Francisco; I had a comp ticket from United Airlines......

What a wonderful poem I heard on Garrison Keillors, A Writer's Almanac . I'm not sure I could get all the line breaks corrected but ...

January 7, 2009. Dad gave us some old bottles of wine he had been storing in the basement. Not the really good stuff but who's complaini...

Here is the Christmas letter 2008 we sent to family and freinds (sans pictures): Christmas 2008 We hope everyone has had a good year and thi...

January 7th, 2009. While Judy and Elroy were home over holiday break we visited the Fritz Scholder exhibit at the National Museum of the Ame...

October 27, 2008. This year I talked Jane into running the Marine Corps Marathon with me. We largely trained together throughout the summe...

October 27, 2008. Earlier this month Jane and I went to a scientific meeting that was held in a hotel/convention center near the Gettysbur...