Yearly Archives: 2021
Escape to Quartz Mountain
December 21-24, 2021 | Photo Album Knowing that the pandemic could throw us some curve balls, Wendy and I waited until the last minute to make any plans for our two-week winter break. The Omicron variant was poised to infect … Continue reading
Catching up on cars
Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. -Ferris Bueller An article in the Tulsa World caught my attention this Thanksgiving Day morning. The Putting physics to work headline … Continue reading
Fall Break was an Autumn Brake
November 6, 2021 | Photo Album Two weeks before Fall Break 2021, Wendy and I received our third doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. That meant our protection against infection would be strengthened for a much-needed brief escape from Bartlesville … Continue reading
A new loop at Lookout Lake
October 30, 2021 Photo Album The cooler weather drew Wendy and I out for a short hike this weekend. I had first considered going to Elk City, but there were activities there associated with the annual Neewollah festival in nearby … Continue reading
It tasks me, it heaps me, an inscrutable malice sinews it
August 21, 2021 We have begun another school year battered and bruised but not broken by COVID-19. Vaccines now shield most of my colleagues and loved ones from hospitalization and death, even as the Delta variant, pandemic fatigue, and pathological … Continue reading














