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After a two week break from school... wham! I'm back in it up to my earholes. It's October now. We went to Monterey, California, Lab...

Dear Diary: Where HAS the time gone? Summer is long gone now, San Diego is starting to be chilly in the mornings and dark when I slink away ...

New Las Vegas Shoes We used to come here several times a year. I like to play the slots and Hector likes to lay by the pool and go to the sp...

Shopping in Chinatown After our 2 Up With People houseguests moved on to continue their tour of the least interesting parts of America, H...

Balcony View of Alhambra Alhambra Courtyard Carved plaster in the Alhambra The Generalife Gardens at the Alhambra As a break from luxuriat...

Al and Marc's House: El Carligto Ronda View from the Hilltop After 4 days in Madrid we caught the brand new high-speed train heading s...

Changing of the Guard At the Plaza Oriente On the Gran Via Spiderman at Plaza Mayor Well, we had a strange route. San Diego-Dallas-Miami...

Steve, Ron, and Sandi I made my first trip to Catalina last week. Imagine living in Southern California 23 years and not going to Catalina!...

Friday before last, I joined Hector after he finished working in Dallas all week. It was a shock to see how brown everything is this time of...

Yesterday, Friday, Leslie and I snuck off and went to Disneyland for the day. She goes all the time with grandkid...

I suppose we're back in the swing of things now. It always takes me several weeks to get over the holiday comedown. Rush, rush, exciteme...

Cafe in the Plaka Temple of Olympian Zeus At the Ancient Agora Acropolis Parthenon So I flew into Athens to meet Hector after he wrapp...

Canterbury Cathedral Friday, another easy flight into London City Airport. The city seems crowded and congested after serene Switzerland. Af...

Zurich Old Town Lucerne Quick/easy/cheap flight on Airberlin to Zurich. The Marriott here is a bit old and run down but the spread in the E...

At the Reichstag Holocaust Memorial What a comfortable flight! San Diego to JFK, then to Brussels, (very nice, efficient airport) then on to...

Plaza Bolivar, Casco Viejo Hector with Panama City in background In Panama City now, on a work trip with Hector. Since it's summer, it...

Hector & Steve with City Hall halo I've been pretty ho hum about this whole gay marriage deal here in California. Basically, I have...

Bette Midler in Vegas Carlos & Vanessa at Mission Beach Steve, Pollard, Lucien in Boulder Oh hell, rather than pretending that I was k...

We made our annual trip to the San Diego County Fair (formerly known as the Del Mar Fair, but changed because it sounded too snooty) with Ma...

Entrance of The Parker Our room The Main Lobby Hector returned from Bogota late Saturday night, then we left early Sunday for Palm Springs...

I came with Hector to Atlanta because he was presenting at the International Reading Association Convention. 25,000 chubby, middle-aged teac...

Hotel in the Sultanahmet District (me on top) The Blue Mosque Grand Bazaar 1000 year old mosaic in the Haghia Sophia Mosque We just retu...

I'm trying to keep up with Hector's movements on the other side of the world but since he's going to bed as I'm getting up a...

The school quarter is winding down, only ten more days to go. But the assignments are becoming more fevered and frequent. Big lesson plans d...

It must have begun in Mrs. Sharpley's 4th grade geography class because I've always had a strong desire to see the Panama Canal. It ...

Sitting at the Dallas-Ft Worth Admirals Club Lounge en route to Panama. Hector is working there next week and I am going along for the ride....

Unfortunately, I haven't had much time for my posting here but I thought I'd better check in. School is going well, we're into w...

Okay, I'm not as stupid as first feared. I got to my Teaching Grammar class and no one, NO ONE knew anything about past participles or ...

When did I become so old and stupid? At the end of my first week of classes I'm exhausted and confused. I can't remember which textb...