Monthly Archives: December 2017

2017 in photos

Pop with baby Lily. Standing: Blayne, the father; Karen, the grandmother (which still seems odd to say); Beth, the great-aunt.
With my sisters and father, June 2017.
Jay Stalder.
With Webster alum Charlie Ingram, my former voice student.
Auggie.
Blayne and Sarah with their daughter.
Eden.
My travel companion, Jason.
Austen.
Audrey.
Beloved former student Josh Stierley, now working on a doctorate at UIC.
Kolton Wong at bat. He hit a double on this swing.
From Springfield, Missouri, my great-niece Lily Riffle, ten days old.
With Loo!
My feet. Over the NYC harbor.
Robert and Kurt.
With my sisters Karen and Beth, and Pop. 23 Nov 2017.
Hong Kong, 2017.
Rachel Seiler.

#TBT: More from Malaysia

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2003. In historic Melaka, Malaysia.
At the jury table.
Malaysia, 2003
2003. At the foot of the Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur.
Working with a choir from Singapore.
Working with a Philippine choir.

I have written elsewhere on this blog about my trip to Malaysia in 2003.

My first trip to Asia is on my mind again, 14 years later.  Some of these photos have not been posted before, so I share them now.

Executor stuff

Daily Life

Having now successfully (or somewhat successfully) called every single one of my late father’s credit card issuers, I can safely say that

  • Wal-Mart has the worst phone menu in the world, and
  • Synchrony Bank is probably second worst.

The Wal-Mart (a name that makes me shudder even to type it) system was maddeningly obtuse, and took multiple attempts to even get to a place where I could figure out how to get a real person on the line.

The best?  Chase and AMEX both were so easy to use, and the person on the other end asked so few questions!