Life as I live it

Today Zac leaves Le Mans after an amazing one year experience living and teaching in France. I can only imagine the emotions that will be ru...

I like to stop and buy produce from individuals selling their wares beside the road. My favorite are the farmers that sell what they grow, b...

I really did not want to work on the 4th, but being the "slave driver" that she is, my wife made to go. The day started out great....

I consider this book a "must read" for everyone. Not because it is a literary masterpiece but because of its subject matter. NICKE...

Zac had to work ( if you want to call it that ) Monday and Tuesday, so I went to the university with him. I was "show and tell" f...

When Zac first started talking about going to Le Mans, France to teach the only thing I knew about the town was its famous race track. Bei...

Please lend me a hand as I am about to get on my "soapbox" again. The older I get the more I like things to be traditional. We wer...

Sunday morning we went to the "outdoor market" before we headed to the race track. It was a walk of just over half an hour. I enjo...

After the castle we visited a church and decided to have pizza for lunch. Pizza is inexpensive and provides the much needed carbs for all th...

Zac had been accepted into the 3 Phd programs (Penn State, Ohio State, and Albany) he had applied for but only two had sent there financial ...

I will continue with my posts about my trip to France to see my son with what I consider the gem of the trip. We had invited Matt to join us...

Today I wrapped up the deck by underpinning it. Sometimes it is the little details that no one notices that make one job look a little nicer...