It is funny how the mind works and how a smell, a song, a photo can bring back a throng of emotion. It was Saturday, and Rena and I were walking through downtown, passing a hotel where we had all stayed as a family. Rena’s mom and dad, my mom, and the two of us [...]
Wendy Karen Nash, born April 25, 1951, lost her life tonight, Thanksgiving Day eve, November 27th, 2008 at 10:55 p.m. EST [ 8:55 PM Edmonton time] She died as a result of her short, but valiant battle with liver cancer at the Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton.
Her firstborn son, Dallas, her baby, Tyson, [...]
Well it is official! Mom turned 70 years old yesterday. We celebrated with a wonderful flower arrangement built by my talented wife that rivaled any professional bouquet that you could buy in stores and then went to a great local restaurant that is in a beautiful part of Virginia.
Sherry, Rena’s sister [...]
I am in love. Where else, but Madrid, can a theater of the performing arts be named after my favorite ice cream?
I am sitting in a square, late at night, about to head to dinner. When in Spain… Apparently the locals dine after 9 p.m. Dinner is at a super cool restaurant where [...]
A peaceful, early morning cab ride to the Le Gare L’Est in Paris (Paris East Train Station), I grab a coffee and a pain du chocolate; what else in the world could be more perfect? It is a little before 8 a.m. in the morning, the sun is coming up in the east, casting [...]
Man it’s hot in the desert in September…
I wake from a six hour slumber to see the map, and the city below is Tehran, Iran. There is nothing but desert for miles.
The 777 is moving quickly over the waters of the Arabian Gulf (Persian Gulf – the locals hate it being [...]
After a long week of meetings and late night business calls from the US (due to the 7 hour time difference) I was able to celebrate the Labor Day weekend with my lovely bride. After her hellish flight over, we left Frankfurt airport to make our journey to Munich.
The ride was long, [...]
So my next round of business travels takes me to the place of my family’s origin. I arrive a day late in Frankfurt Germany after missing my connector in Atlanta because of weather. I think this past trip will be the end of my allegiance to Delta Airlines. I was stuck on [...]
So I left Austin last Wednesday, it is 104 degrees, and spent a full twelve hours in route to Ireland where the temperature (upon my arrival) is a cool 66 degrees.
I land early in the morning to a true Irish welcome. My driver awaits to bring me to the hotel, it has just rained, [...]
My wife and I just returned from a wonderful vacation on Vancouver Island. We spent three days at Tigh-Na-Mara Hotel and Spa “up-island” with my dad. It was a really nice time and the weather was beautiful. I was glad that Rena and I could spend some quality time with my dad. [...]