There he is.  My best friend.  The love of my life.  The little being you will hear me talk about ad nauseum and the little being whose picture I show to everyone I meet.  I have shown his picture to so many people, I can’t remember them all.  And when I get home each day I tell him about everyone I showed his picture to.  His name is Todfield Crash!, or Crash! for short.  If you are unfamiliar with his breed, he’s a Border Terrier.   He has a page on Dogbook and he has an Official Fan Club with 107 members, so far.

None of this has anything to do with this post, but I tell EVERYONE how much I love Crash! so I thought I would start with that.

I just wanted to say that I am going through each post one by one to reformat.  I have to recover my mailing list…  and get a site redesign.  And a bunch of other things.  Slow and steady wins the race (thing #2 you’ll always hear me say).  And by the time the race is over, I hope my site will be EXACTLY what I want…

But for now, I’m off to Amsterdam…  (thing #3 you’ll always hear me say…I’m off somewhere.  I can’t sit still!)

It’s no secret to anyone who knows me that I (1) *LOVE* the United States of America and (2) find living in my current country of residence as comfortable as a cheap polyester suit, two sizes too small in 100 degree weather.  For this reason, I try to live in my own little moving USA [...]

A friend once listed to me the top ten list of the most difficult challenges that a person can face in their lifetime.  The end of a long term relationship, changing homes, changing jobs, the death of a loved one were all on the list.  The destruction of 4 years worth of a website was [...]