Annika and Mati released their book, Pesto, on Amazon last week. (I helped them with that, just that.) The response has been really nice – lots of people we know are buying the book, my cousin’s kids ordered it and took it in to their school as show-and-tell and to …
February is almost gone. How did that happen? This weekend is nice and chill (literally?). Annika and Savita have friends over, and Savita is doing her first “hang out” with some friends at the local Boba tea place. I’m excited for her. Other than that, I’m taking the opportunity to …
More than three weeks into 2023 already. How did that happen? The rest of our time in Florida was really nice. Perfect weather. The kids played with their cousins, and we actually didn’t really go anywhere except for dinner. Besides Weekee Wachee, we didn’t even go to the beach. We …
The final hours of 2022 are winding down and thoughts naturally run to evaluating the past year and thinking about the coming one. I’ve already been in a somewhat retrospective mood. Scanning the family photos (all 12,247 of them) has presented me with scattered moments from the last 50 years, …