A few days before Mother’s Day I got a great idea on how to spoil her. This amounted to accompanying her on a bicycle tour in the nearby foothills. If she was in real estate, this would be her preferred way to show off these neighborhoods and get a bit of hill climbing done in [...]

My morning started off with breakfast in bed. Actually, that’s not entirely true. My morning started with a 7 AM phone call from my brother (amplified by my iPhone dock — which was on FULL volume). That’s another story however. I silenced the call in snooze like fashion, rolled over, and returned to sleep. An [...]