My House

We just lost another of the 1019’ers (or wait…is that Keefer’s), but perhaps soon we’ll have another. We’ll always have the memories. (Ben is getting union’ed in UK and left us saturday, he’s the one in the back middle of the picture.) Originally uploaded by lmoore1118

The lies we sell ourselves

I recently finished Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong written by James Loewen, and while I admitted to reading several other history books as well, I think I’m rather more stunned by a single idea that Loewen’s writing so clearly and with such distinct reasoning catalyzed in my mind … Read more

In paradise without distractions

The last major distraction of the smartphone was eliminated nearly as soon as we got to the beach as we went to the number 2 party place in Europe, Ayia Napa, just 15 mins away from the house we are borrowing for the week here in Protaras. Aiya Napa is like Key West, the French … Read more

iFlickr from Cyprus

For those of you who’d like some pictures of my travels, I have been snapping touristy snaps with my iPhone to Flickr. You an check the stream at www.flickr.com/wonderfullyrich We’ve been the busy guest of Stavros and Despo, plus the family and friends. It Cyprus, but think Greek hospitality; lots of slow meals, napping, and … Read more

One Piece will do…

Every time I land somewhere I’m reminded of an old line in short circuit “one piece will do” referring to bringing back a newly self aware robot in one piece. I made I to Cyprus in one piece.  Smooth sailing, other the Dulles security stealing my toothpaste. Felt like all I ate was “English breakfast” … Read more

Cyprus here I come!

More like, beach and brain fart here I come… I leave for Cyprus via London tomorrow in the o’dark thirty hours for a month, yes that’s right a month of doing nothing but what I want to do.  Or well, more of what we want to do, as I meet Angela in Cyprus when I … Read more

What a day… what a life!

It’s 8:30pm Eastern Standard Time and I’m writing a quick post before I walk out the door for home.  It’s been an amazing time lately and I haven’t said much about what’s going on in my life. Two big deals today were that I submitted a website I created to the popular blog BoingBoing.net as … Read more

Antimicrobial vs Waterless Handwashing

I was revisiting the topic of soap today as I was thinking about the continuing discussion that i’ve had where people argue hand sanitizer are as bad for the Environment as anti-microbial soap and decide that it was worth continuing (and perhaps ending) this conversation. Many of you have likely heard about the superbug or … Read more