So this week on CNN.com they are inviting people to share stories from Ireland.
Now maybe time does heal all grudges because I went from

this

from when I first arrived back from Ireland, to

this

remarkably restrained sentence I just posted on iReport.

maybe all that Carribean sun in Honduras burned away some of my resentment.

I just signed up for another writing class, like a masochist. I hate English majors! I hate writers! Being around them makes my skin crawl! The last time I took a writing class a woman told me I hadn't moved on from my life in Asheville and I should have spent more time saying goodbye to the trees and giving them permission to change! Why why why ( Read more... )

It was re-enactment time so we went to Gettysburg. Andrew and dad were confederates this time (dad was a yankee for awhile, but the ghosts of my two great-great-great confederate uncles visited him in a dream and he doesn't do that anymore ( Read more... )

Me-

I handled a claim today where a woman thought Steven Spielberg was trying to kill her by putting anthrax in her car.

Andrew-oh yeah? I handled a claim today where the person's thermostat caught on fire, and they couldn't figure out how it started until they opened the wall and found frayed wires and a bunch of charred cockroaches. Turns out ( Read more... )

So Keith and I were at Fellini's #9 for Thursday night antipasti and there was big group of people in the booth behind us. I didn't really notice until they stood up and one of the people was Sissy Spacek. I glanced at her and then tried not to look at her again. After they let the waiter came over and we had this conversation:

Waiter: "I didn't ( Read more... )

Today we had an auto claim where some poor sap hit a deer in his car but didn't quite kill it. Instead of letting natural selection take its course, he loaded the deer into his backseat and started down the road to an animal hospital. After driving for a few minutes, the deer revived and kicked out the back windows and then started kicking Sap boy ( Read more... )

from now on, when you see the commercials for lawyers that will get you the injury settlement you deserve, think about this ( Read more... )

and finally...


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Roatan Island....


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Copan Ruins


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