Retirement
Hi, My phone-banking on behalf of Obama is over, final contributions made, my ballot is cast and I’m writing to you from the porch overlooking the bay and the Atlantic in Las Galeras, Republica Dominicana. It was dry here for several months after we left last Spring and then rained like hell for several more […]
…actually, it isn’t. But it’s sure a world apart from the days of .html coding and the Mosaic browser and the first Web page within the Painters Union back when we lived in Seattle. (That’s a large city way out west in Washington State, by the way. Out there, they believe that the State is […]
Continue reading about Blogs, CMS, RSS, FTP–it’s all too much for me…
Hi, Denise and I are looking over the list of things to do before closing up here in Las Galeras and returning to the US in a couple of weeks. It’s a long list. Not surprisingly, we’ve a few things to do that are completely foreign to the counterpart list that we use when we […]
Hi, As reasonably attuned city folk we’re accustomed to the animals, and the animal sounds, that one might find in an urban setting. In a place like Takoma Park those sounds run the gamut from barking dogs and yowling cats through chattering squirrels all the way to the shrill and insistent squawk of a pileated […]
It turns out that there are 26 species of snake to be found on the island of Hispaniola. My previous research had confirmed that none of the 26 are poisonous, and the few snakes we’d actually encountered appeared to be friendly in a slim and green non-threatening tropical sort of way. So that’s what I […]