On Saturday we went to the annual Celtic Festival in Austin Texas. It is not like this is some incredible journey, we do live here in Austin after all. However on Saturday this 7 mile journey took nearly an hour to get back at the end of the day. When we left home around 8AM we got on I-35, went south for about 3 or 4 minutes, then finished up in the park about 15 minutes after we had left the house. [Read more →]

Why do we have “Veterans Day”? The 20^th centruy was a century of Wars. The Great War, now referred to as World War I, was supposed to be the “war to end all wars”. There were more, but that is not the purpose of this post. [Read more →]