New Year’s resolutions – Keeping the family history

Here is the plan for the new year: Diet for the month of January (a minor “correction”). Finish doing whatever I decide to do with my mother’s photo collection. Label the rocks from my Australia trip. (Yes, I’ll explain that in a blog some day.) It is #2 that presents the most difficulty. Since I was…

2011 in review – Official blog stats

Thanks for visiting in 2011!  Here is the 2011 annual report for my blog, prepared by WordPress.com. I will try to keep it up for 2012. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,000 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would…

This and that in Brisbane

Here we are in Brisbane, resting our weary feet in the State Library of Queensland. It’s a very impressive new building. Observe Husband reading an Australian car magazine. Brisbane is dominated by the river that loops through the city and occasionally inundates large areas (google Brisbane floods 2011). Finally, here are Husband and daughter comparing…

Movie review: The Tree of Life

This was written during my long flight… I do all my movie-watching on airplanes. I am watching one now which inspired me to pull out my phone (in Airplane Mode, of course) and start reviewing immediately while I watch. If you infer that I am less than captivated, you are correct. This is a WEIRD…

On my way!

When this is posted, I will have arrived in Australia. Here is my icon at YVR airport. Since I will mainly be blogging from my phone, the posts will tend to be shorter but more frequent. That is in part because I can only put one photo on each email. I spent the day doing…