Taking the Long Road
Lifestyle Is About Cash Flow
I read financial news quite a bit, perhaps too much. Typically Yahoo. One recurring theme in personal finance headlines reflects this obsession with how much one has saved for retirement. What is the value of your 401k or your net worth or some such tally of assets.
Questions like, "I have $3 in savings for retirement, am unemployed, and . . .
March 11, 2022
Ukraine
What a Mess
Like many of you, my wife and I have been watching the unfolding events happening in Ukraine that have overtaken the news pages in recent days. For most folks, Ukraine is hardly a place they would know much about or have all that much interest in knowing much about.
My interest in Ukraine is a bit more personal. Aside from visiting the . . .
February 27, 2022
Sunrise Sunset
We're in Mexico now and have been for the past three weeks or so. We've stayed in five different places so far with the aim of living in different locations of the city to see how each 'fits'. Our preference is always for places with interesting views, but also walking access to groceries, restaurants and easy access to the central historical . . .
February 05, 2022
Still.... A Sense of Relief
I submitted my final grades for the semester this past week.
That's not an unusual event for university professors as they have turned in final grades every semester for, well, a long time. It's usually done with a sigh of relief that reflects the fact that another semester has been officially put to bed. It's a natural cycle of the . . .
December 27, 2021
Changing the Script
When Is Quitting a Job Retirement?
I informed my employer in the spring semester that I was giving notice of my intent to quit at the end of the year. We're talking the year 2021, for future reference. In academia hiring windows begin primarily in the fall, so I figured I was giving at least some time to sort this out in terms of a replacement.
Anyhow, . . .
December 05, 2021
Queretaro, Mexico
Now this was a pleasant experience....
Inga and I certainly can't say we've traveled all over the world in search of paradise in our brief seven years of marriage, but we have hit a few places along the way, particularly in Latin America. Let's see we've hit Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic (multiple times), Panama, Ecuador and a couple of places in Mexico (Cancun/Playa del Carmen . . .
August 02, 2019
Playa del Carmen
Not My Kind of Place
Before the visit to Playa del Carmen, Mexico fades into a distant memory (and that takes less time as I get older), I wanted to post some of my thoughts on our 16-day visit 19 December - 4 January. We stayed the whole time in Playa del Carmen.
It was not our intent to do so, but the lack of confidence in our supposed 5-day Cancun . . .
January 28, 2019
