Monthly Archives: December 2017

2017 in photos

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

#TBT: More from Malaysia

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

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!