Amongst the writers at OurThursday.com are well-prepared travellers who have ventured off into the depths of the globe and endured living in the unknown foreign lands. What I’ve come to realize is that I don’t just travel like your average tourist, but I become domesticated by living and breathing the surroundings. Basketball has taken . . . → Read More: Pro Basketball Stories: Israel
 In August of 2000, I obtained my last USA passport under auspicious circumstances. I had a trip  I will never forget planned to England and with only a few weeks to go I noticed that my previous passport had expired. At that time, there was no expedited passport process so we immediately did the next best thing and lied. We had my Grandfather write a very formal letter saying that his wife, my Grandmother, was doing very poorly and it was imperative that I was present at her side during her final days. It worked. There after this passport served me extremely well and saw many an airport. I even had to have 25 pages added to it to accomodate more stamps. Well in August of 2010, it expires so I thought I would give my passport Justice and try and recount some of the memories that spring to mind while gazing through some of the stamps and visas.  The hair gene in males comes from your mother’s father. This means that I am going to have  My eyebrows in about 27 months. Hopefully not my demeanor. enormous eyebrows that will shade me and my family from the sun and I will have one of those heads that has the semi circle around the back from ear to ear. If I were a weaker person, I would grow one side extremely long and try to hide the top of my abnormally shiny head and then say “What?” when people asked me about it. However, there are alternatives. As I once again begi to blog about my memories, adventures and life…I think I’d like to start out blogging about a place that all the authors at OurThursday.com have a spot for in their heart. This such place has gathered many unique friends at many different occasions in our lives. The laughter, love, wackiness, stupidity and . . . → Read More: “The VILLA” Everybody has heard of the mid-life crisis. Usually typified by a balding married man trying to cling on to his lost youth by purchasing a red convertable sports car. While I am not quite to that point just yet, I have been struggling with something similar and just as sad and pathetic. My mid mid-life crisis. Continue reading My Mid Mid-life Crisis  About 26 miles off the coast of Southern California, you can feel as if you are a thousand miles away from the United States, and you do not need a passport. (In fact, this island is still part of Los Angeles County and has a 323 area code or is it 213?). As I write this, there is a large horde of young men that have descended upon this magical mystery tour of an island for an annual trip we affectionately call, Catalina.
Rome is a remarkable city and if you want to blow your mind to the maximum, go to Cinque Terra on the mediterranean coast. Below is an excerpt from a journal I kept during a a two month trip through Europe.
In the ongoing quest to better myself, experience culture, and pursue mind boggling love, I moved myself to Santiago Chile back in February. I intended to do another “Random First Impressions…” blog but that time has passed so follow along as I ramble through my slightly more refined and matured impressions of Chile. Continue reading Ramblings From a Very Long and Very Thin Country  Unless you are an American over the age of forty you probably are interested in football (soccer), so you must be as excited as I am to watch the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. But this World Cup has gotten some flak for poor officiating, and this is the topic of this quick-blog. About a year ago I signed up for a free online dating site called Plenty of Fish, also known as POF. While searching through the profiles that all women age 20 – 36 within the greater Los Angeles area made for themselves, I started to notice an alarming number of similarities or recuring themes. The following is my list of peeves. |
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