Greetings from South India. I am finally able to post this blog on a fantastic bird sanctuary we visited earlier on this trip. There are times in life when getting up at the crack of dawn is worth every second of deprived sleep! Such is the experience when going [...]
Written from Kanchipuram, just completed/edited: As I write, I think I hear the monkeys squabbling outside my window. Maybe not. I mean, wouldn't they be asleep at this hour? My curtains are drawn shut because it is only 4:30am. Jet lag has me up at this hour. If I [...]
Hello from Chennai, South India! I arrived at the Chennai airport yesterday, tired beyond tired. We went through immigration, collected our luggage, found our driver, and checked into our hotel around 4am. After a relaxing shower, it must have been 5am by the time I slipped into bed with [...]
Approaching Winter Solstice means that we are deep into weeks of short days and long nights. Here in the Pacific Northwest, on our shortest day we will have 7 hours and 34 minutes less sunlight than we had on our longest day in June. Add clouds and rain to the [...]
PARADISE (I) Growing up, I attended Saints Peter and Paul Grade School and Andrean High School (named after Bishop Andrew Grutka). It was a big deal for me to go to Catholic school. My parents scrambled and worked long hours to pay the hefty tuition for my private school. [...]
