Taking It Personally
Taking It Personally: My Summer Vacation
Thoughts ... including whether it really is a vacation.
The draft of my column for this week was written on the back of a large envelope. “Oh, c’mon” you are probably saying. “That Abraham Lincoln-writing-by-the-light-of-the-fire stuff was old a hundred years ago.” It is true that I did not write by the light of a fire. There was one burning nearby, but I used a Coleman lantern, which my eyes really appreciated. I recently wrote that, when I retired, it would be to a place where you would not be able to reach me by phone or Internet. I was thinking Paris at the time. In fact, for the past week I have been without any reliable links to the outside world. No bars on my cellphone. No Internet connection. Very iffy landline phone service, which requires an arduous walk to use. Nobody has a radio or…
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Hank Manz
10:32 pm on Monday, August 22, 2011
I may have overstated the agility I display when going up and down the hill. Most of the time I ... uhhhh ... drag up and down it. Part of the fun is choosing a trail. There are many. Some are moderately steep the entire way. Some are relatively flat with two or three really steeeeep places. And there is one that is steep only at the start, but it feels like a precursor to a heart attack when you… more ›