The victim stumbled off to the wrong sideline and disappeared into the rodent locker room.
Merry Augmented Reality to All! And so, another year ends with Scandinavian Advent, a season marked by our inability to recall the completion of a single productive task in 2017. Vague memories of a February Baja excursion fell victim to rogue-wave beach bashings and numerous involuntary paddleboard dismounts near Ultima Piedra. An over-consumption of fruity, …
Atop our list of 2016 feats: grand orthopedic triumphs. After enduring a superfluity of injections, ablations, infusions, and healthcare rejections, JoAnn finally tamed a blazing sacroiliac joint in March by undergoing a successful fusion of the two bad-tempered bone masses. The surgery, followed by several months of healing and rehab, reduced her pain level substantially, …
Merry Cardboard Season to All: The enclosed photograph depicts the initial stages of our 2015 travel adventure, a “Great Faces; Great Places” South Dakota excursion to celebrate milestone birthdays for Tom’s parents in July. The photograph also depicts our respective mindsets relative to air transport as well as life in general: JoAnn putting her best …
Happy Hacking Season To All: With the exception of a few cat-centric illnesses, 2014 seems poised to end in relative peace, much the way we began. JoAnn weathered a new workplace dress code and reorganization while continuing to minister with utmost efficiency and charm to the infirm of Northern Colorado. Tom’s former employer performed less …
Beloved Shopping Dazers: Our dear friend and nephew, Thomas Breske, passed away in June. Despite this tragedy, we want to end the year on a happy note by honoring his humorous nature. Thomas would indulge our attempt at Christmas pleasantries with his severely contagious laugh. Our 2013 high point occurred in October, when we achieved …
Wish us pot luck.
Dearest Decemberites: As the Big Day looms, we welcome the end of a below-zero (-18°C) cold spell that called into question our residential standing as the best place on Earth to live, work, play, drive, and retire. JoAnn endured the chill with typical Swedish stoicism, until the siege’s third day, when she found Tom in …
Dearest MX Thrivers and Survivors: Congratulations to everyone for enduring “The Lost Decade.” Those years saw incredible technological innovation and offered 24-hour connectivity, all of which failed to prevent the constant misplacement of our belongings and the straying of our vehicles from their intended paths. As the Kindles, iPods, and Notebooks pile up at our …
Dearest Recipients: A heavily-adorned balsam fir shades the kitchen table. Glass shards of broken ornaments cling to the webbing between Tom’s frog-like toes. Sub-zero temperatures and deep snow drifts turn the backyard squirrels to peanut-eating frost wraiths. Thanksgiving leftovers change colors to signal the approach of holiday letter-writing season. In January, we traversed …