by svsauthor | Sep 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
The leaves are beginning to change. For it to occur this early in September, the reason might be more the lack of rain than the time of the year. It is more than leaf color letting me know that fall, if not already here, is only a week or two away. I wear a jacket and...
by svsauthor | Sep 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Ninety percent of the time it does not matter whether more than ten people read my blog. Friends look at it, and the effort put toward submitting a weekly entry is excellent writing practice. Those two not insignificant benefits are enough to keep me going....
by svsauthor | Sep 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
In last week’s blog I mentioned an outer suburb of Taipei called Taoyuan. When I lived in Taiwan during the early 1990s, Taoyuan was home to the Chiang Kai-shek International Airport. Today the same airport is called the Taoyuan International Airport. Chiang...
by svsauthor | Aug 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
Last week Manyu and I met with Cody, our financial advisor. We’ve had someone overseeing my retirement account since I started working at UW-La Crosse in 1993, but it still feels odd for me to say I even have a financial advisor. What would the twenty-eight year old...
by svsauthor | Aug 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
Every August my mom’s side of the family holds a family reunion in Merrill, Wisconsin. I attend maybe one gathering in three, but hadn’t gone since COVID. Manyu and I went this year, and Clare joined us from Madison. I was born in Merrill, but my family moved away...
by svsauthor | Aug 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
A month ago I wrote a blog about a bicycle accident I had. The scrapes and bruises from that mishap had almost healed when I had to climb into a tree to cut out a big branch that had broken off in a storm. I did not fall out of the tree, nor did I fall off the ladder,...
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