Remittance Man

 Posted by at 12:11 am  Nick's Blog
Feb 072016
 

I’ve had several job titles in my life. Soldier, cop, entrepreneur, journalist, newspaper publisher, author, public speaker, and a couple I choose to forget. But I think that at 63 years of age, I have finally found my calling. I’m going to become a remittance man. For those of you not familiar with the term, […]

She’s At It Again

 Posted by at 12:02 am  Nick's Blog
Jan 042015
 

As I said in yesterday’s blog, on Friday Terry stocked up on yarn at a shop we found up in Gainesville, so she spent yesterday putting the skeins of yarn onto a swift and then wound them onto a ball winder. Then she wound the warp (don’t worry, I don’t understand most of it either) […]

Arizona Burning

 Posted by at 12:02 am  Nick's Blog
May 142012
 

If you’ve never spent much time in the Grand Canyon State, you might not think of this being a place that has major fires. You’d be wrong. Four big wildfires are burning in Arizona as I write this. The Gladiator Fire, burning 60 miles south of us, has grown to nearly a thousand acres, destroyed […]