I ride my bike nearly every day. I don’t ride nearly as far these days but I’d like to think quantity is its own quality. In terms of health and exercise, I think getting my heart rate up for a good 40 minutes each day is probably doing ok – or at least better than average. I fantasize about riding longer. I see folks on the U-tubes riding across the state or country and I think, “Why…
Although I’ve never been a great typist, my fingers rest as naturally on the home row as my head does a pillow. But lately typing is a never ending string of frustrations… a seeming combination of my fingers not following orders and the orders issued being flawed. I never get from capital letter to punctuation without a string of back-spaces and a correction. My pinkie reaches for…
I heard the dorms around Graham Hall were coming down (Graham, Simpson and Trusler). This summer they were ominously fenced off. Last week they started falling. I took some pictures Saturday.
I thought about getting up close to the fence and shooting through it. Then I figured the fence added more than it obscured.
Everyone loves a stairs to nowhere picture.
Graham Hall with…
Joseph Paul Bouvier of Gainesville (FL), formerly of Dunedin, Merrimack (NH), and Biddeford (ME), passed away on December 23rd. He was 86 years old.
Prior to joining the Army as a young adult – and continuing to this day, family from his youth knew him as Paul Joseph Bouvier… or simply Paul. Friends knew him as Butch. Seeking to escape a nickname and citing a fortuitous mistake on his birth…
Kathryn Kauffman of Gainesville, formerly of Dunedin (FL), Billerica, and Lynn (MA), died on November 13th. She follows her husband of more than 50 years, James, who passed in 2021. Among those who remain behind to morn her loss: her son John, her daughters Christine and Lisa, as well as four grandchildren. She was 82 years old.
Born Kathryn Conner, she was the child of Wendell and Elizabeth…
I feel like my father sabotaged me from the grave. I’d gathered the strength to do some sorting of his stuff, discarding things I didn’t think anyone would need – or want.
An early sign his mind was going – and he was fully aware of it – was an afternoon spent at his condo in Gainesville, maybe four years ago. He gave me a copy of his 1Password vault and more importantly, the…
James Kauffman, formerly of Dunedin (FL), Billerica (MA), and Altoona (PA), died on July 16th. He passed quietly with family at his side. Among those who remain behind to morn his loss: his wife Kathryn, his son John, his daughters Christine and Lisa, his sister Suzanne, a nephew Glenn, as well as four grandchildren. He takes with him his dry wit, an affinity for outdoor activities (bicycling…