I use the word “journey” a lot when I refer to my relationship with my spouse. Like all couples, we have had our joyous times, our down times, our travelin’ times, our comfy-at-home times, our happy times, our sad times, our best-friendiest times, our angry times, our in-sync times, our not-so-in-sync times, our healthy times, and our not healthy times.
Whatever times we have had over the past 22 years since we met in that fateful date (April 25, 1993), I can honestly say…
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It has been an incredible and rough three-year journey for my spouse as he has dealt with three simultaneous infections born by a tick bite. Months and months of agony, being seen by more than 50 medical professionals, being prescribed more than 160 different drugs, and ongoing fights with a narrow-minded “big pharma”-funded group who deny that his condition could ever exist. Yet with persistent care from a superb general practitioner has brought us to a point that…
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Spring has been very slow to come to my part of the world. Sure, we have had some nice, sunny days, but seldom more than two in a row. Much more rain and cold has been the regular pattern, which makes this booted biker “cage-crazy.” That is, I have had to drive my four-wheeled vehicle instead of my Harley more often than I usually do in April.
In fact, past patterns of March and April motorcycle riding for this data-driven guy indicate…
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The other day, I pulled on some new brown leather chaps, and selected a pair of brown White’s Nomad engineer boots to wear with them, then went for a ride on my Harley to run some errands.
Man, soon after pulling on the boots, my feet…
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I had an uneventful, though long, return home from my recent business trip to the Caribbean on Friday. I spent the day on Saturday catching up.
So here’s what my lifestyle dictated that I do to catch up…
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No, I have not skipped across the planet and landed in China. I am not that “far east.”
Yesterday began with “First Call”/”Reveille” at 0600. I was, after all, a guest on a military base. I actually tried some P.T… well, not…. Instead, I was met by someone sent to get me to transport me to the airport for an early flight.
One half-hour later…
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Greetings from a delightfully warm and very friendly location where I remain on business travel.
Wednesday’s travels involved going on a short tour by sea on a research ship, then lunch on land at a university, then climbing aboard a…
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Day 2 of my “where in the world is BHD?” took me on a long walk at dawn — five miles, according to my pedometer. This was my view:
After returning to my hotel where I showered and changed, I was picked up by a colleague who took me to a meeting place where a number of local professionals joined…
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Where in the world is BHD today?
I left home for business travel on Monday morning, and arrived here…
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Man, I had a really busy weekend! The busy weekend involved five pairs of boots.
So what did I do and what boots did I wear?
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