I was a Mets fan in the ‘80s and ‘90s, and David Cone was always an interesting character. He’s won 20 games a few times, pitched for World Series Champion teams, has won a Cy Young award, and pitched a perfect game. He’s seen a lot in his career, so there’s a lot of source material for a good book. …
When I decided to step up my iPhone photography game by purchasing Moment lenses, I was drawn to a deal that was offered on their website – their two-lens starter kit. I knew I wanted the fisheye lens. I didn’t think I needed the ultra wide lens, since the iPhone 11 Pro already has an ultra wide lens (I’m reconsidering…
I was a big fan of the original Queer Eye for the Straight Guy back when it aired almost 20 years ago. I had no interest in watching the reboot, but I caught an episode one day, and I got sucked in and ended up bingeing them all over the course of a month or two. I do like the…
One of the great joys of retirement is to be able to pursue interests that you’ve always had to put on the back burner. I’ve always liked and have had a great appreciation for photography, but all of the technical details – ISO, shutter speeds, aperture, f-stop, the different lenses, etc. – made my head spin. It felt to me…
The 60s are my favorite decade. I was born in 1960, however, so I was too young to really understand a lot of what the country was experiencing at that time. As I grew older, I came to appreciate the 60’s much more. I’m drawn to books about the 60’s – the music, the politics, the culture – and I…
Mission Rabies Ghana, February 2020; what an adventure!! Let’s wrap this puppy up with a blog post. The tentative schedule this morning was: breakfast at 8:00, departure from Lake Bosomtwe at 9:00. I packed my suitcase last night except for the few things I would need in the morning, so I was pretty ready to go. I set the alarm…
I love videos like these from iPhone Photography School. In less than ten minutes, I just got some really useful tips about taking forest landscape photos. I now understand the importance of using the ultra-wide angle lens, putting something in the foreground to make several layers of depth, tilting the camera back a little so that the trees all converge…
There was a feeling of excitement in the air this morning as we all convened for breakfast. Today is the day we wrap up our project. At breakfast, we were assigned our given areas that we were going to cover, and we were also given an important statistic, namely, how many dogs we needed to vaccinate in our area in…
This novel follows the life of 49-year old Arthur Less, a not-very-famous writer whose much younger boyfriend of the past 9 years is about to marry someone else. Although Arthur is invited to the wedding, he decides instead to accept all of the invitations to second-class literary events across the globe. In each chapter, we join Arthur in Berlin, India,…
Our assignment this morning was a region named Oyoko. It’s a small farming community, about a 40 minute drive from our base. We had five of us, and Adusei said he was feeling a bit under the weather, so the plan was to split up into two groups. Adusei and I would staff the static clinic, while Charlotte, our driver…
Today was a nice, mellow day. We were assigned a village called Piase. Last year, the static clinic that they set up in this area was very busy. Sure enough, our morning was busy as well, but again, in a very feast-or-famine manner. We’d sit for 20 minutes with absolutely nothing to do, and then three people would appear, one…
I’ve always been a fan of comedy, and the 1980s were a golden age. This is a well-researched book about many of the groundbreaking comedians of the era, and how they made the transition from television to film, changing the face of cinematic comedy forever. Filled with juicy stories about Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, John Candy,…
Convenience Store Woman, by Sayaka Murata. A short little novel about a young Japanese girl, Keiko who, as a child, was pretty weird. At the age of 18, in an attempt to be more normal, she gets a job at a convenience store, and the store becomes her entire life. She mimics the speech patterns and clothing style of her…
Tuesday has always been the most nondescript day of the week, and this applies to Ghana as well, apparently, because today really bordered on being “routine”. I guess I’ve really grown accustomed to things here, because objectively it was amazing as usual. I had an egg sandwich for breakfast, and then went to base camp as usual to load up…