Musings at Altitude

The rain came and quickly went, and now the sun is back out again. But there is something very troubling that is growing in the street right in front of our home: We used to have just a slight dip in the road, right on top of where the sewer pipes run.  In fact, you […]

I’ve been spending time this afternoon out on the front porch, watching the storm clouds move in, and waiting for that inevitable flash of lightning followed by the boom from the thunder.  I’m not lucky enough to get the lightning in a picture, but the clouds show some of the menacing nature of the rapidly […]

I landed in Denver at 6:10 in the morning yesterday after the “redeye” flight out of Anchorage.  It was a beautiful morning, about 60 degrees, and a wonderful reminder of the majestic nature of the mountains.  As I drove south, about 10 miles north of Colorado Springs the sunshine turned to a pretty dense cloud […]

I’ve been in day long meetings for 3 straight days now, and there were donuts & danish in the morning, a plethora of great options at lunch, and then a robust and deep fried dinner both Monday and Tuesday.  So I got back to the hotel tonight and decided I needed to work for my […]

Denise made me cry today…for good reasons and not bad…and I don’t cry very much. You can see why at www.necascorner.blogspot.com. You’ll need a tissue too.

I’m in Anchorage this week, feeling every bit of the itinerant worker that I really am.  I’m only getting up here about every 2 months now, sometimes every 3.  At one time, I was coming up 2 or 3 times a month, and it was really wearing me down.  Every 2 or 3 months seems like […]

My son’s car was out in the driveway today, causing all the pigeons to think we were inside the house.  I drove up and found one sneaky bird just waiting to drop a bomb on us when we left: When I took the dad gum dog out last night for its evening sniff around the […]

I rushed home after work yesterday to mow the yard.  It’s been two weeks and lots of rain later, and the grass was a magnificent wonderland for all those things living and growing in our yard, but it was a nightmare for our Dad Gum Dog.  DGD is somewhere around 18 years old, but we […]

In my 27 years of post college work, I’ve had my share of awkward and uncomfortable situations to resolve and weight-of-the-world issues to carry: I’ve been asked to defend insanity in a work environment when there really was no defense.  I’ve been asked by unethical leaders to accept as “ok” the unethical things that they […]

I woke up this morning thinking about adventure.  It must have something to do with the deep pondering on the “bucket list” lately. But my thoughts veered off into a very different direction today. I thought about the bugs and their grand adventure in this grassy jungle: I thought about the birds and their fearless […]