On April 1, 2015. In Plaza Mina, any little irregularity in the promenades cups a vestige of the water that a rising sun will soon suck up. Smoother surfaces are smeared with a fine film of it, in sweeps and swathes as if somebody has been at them with a mop. The place has been hosed down by the orange clad operatives of the municipality nocturnals that keep it clean, locked into tit-for-tat with the diurnals that dirty it.

Isms isms isms, but no definition? Life is what you make of it, and a poor craftsman blames his tools.

Observations about transit, pedestrian, cycling, and urban infrastructure, design, and improvements. Wednesday, November 23, 2011. A Transit Oriented Business Idea.

This one is also my favorite book.

Where maps, history, and fantasy come to mingle. See how the battle lines changed on every day of World War II. Asymp; Leave a comment. This past week, the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II was commemorated. It was on August 15, 1945, that Japan, the last axis power, announced its surrender to the allied powers after two devastating nuclear bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was a brutally destructive end to the most destructive period in human history. Asymp; Leave a comment.

Good Books and Inspirational Writing. Island of a Thousand Mirrors. How much do you know about Sri Lanka? January 9, 2016.

Walk softly but stand tall. 8216;The Reverend Uncle Shorty. Memory, like history, is interesting. Borrowed an old fedora of mine for Halloween. It was a bit odd, but the kids were grateful and polite.

What can I say except that life happens, and it has definitely happened to us. Besides the drama filled days these last years have offered, we have also added another member to our clan! I have also taken up mountain biking! Yes, you read that correctly, I am now an avid mountain .