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Welcome to the new home of the Serendipity Journal. It has been a loooong time since I last posted. Sorry. Initially, my posting delay occurred because I was working to set up this new website. Despite my best research efforts, my first experience into domain names and hosting services had more than a couple of [...]
Image titled “I want my mommy” by anyjazz65 My wife Carol has an amazing affinity for animals of all kinds. Our house is a virtual Noah’s ark of pets, including dogs, cats, birds, fish, and other assorted, furry varmints. Each pet enjoys Carol’s special blend of care and attention. She has a natural ability to [...] "Graduation Cake Guy" image by CarbonNYC. Click image to see his entire photostream. Earlier this week, I heard a news report stating the last time the national unemployment rate was this bad was back in the early 1980’s. I graduated from college in 1983, at the height of the Reagan recession. I had no [...] Image of Sandy by E. Mugglin It was Easter Sunday, 2005, and I was excited about going to church. This was going to be my first Easter church service since reclaiming my faith. I had been raised a Christian, but had stopped practicing my faith just as soon as I went off to college. I lived [...] Image by KM Cheng, Hong Kong It’s Friday morning here in China and we’re nearly half-way through our trip already. It’s true what Gretchen Rubin noted in her one minute movie, “The days are long, but the years are short.” Yesterday we visited a long-time supplier (at least for China) in their new factory in Jiangmen. [...] Image by E. Mugglin It was August of 2006 and we were flying over Illinois in a brand new Boeing 777. I was in a window seat with a view of the port engine that was mounted under the plane’s wing. It was overcast below us, the cloud tops forming a smooth, white carpet as far as [...] Image by KM Cheng Life has many lessons to teach me, and lately I’ve been finding that school is always in session, often in unlikely places. For example, I recently travelled to a supplier’s factory to review a production run of parts they were making for our company. Prior to heading into the factory, our hosts asked [...] It was late May, 1982 and I was sitting on a wooden bench at a roadside bus stop in a small Italian town. In my mind, the Beatles’ song “Two Of Us” was playing on repeat loop as I silently watched the traffic lurch and weave, honk and gesture in that aggressive way Italian drivers [...] |
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