One fun thing about living overseas is that I just can’t open the Amazon app and have whatever I like Read more
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margrad80
I am a retired Merchant Mariner, a retired Marine Surveyor, and a currently active novelist. I am starting this blog to follow my life in retirement, as I follow a more inconvenient life.
Thanksgiving in Cuenca; or why I am glad I am not him.
A word of warning: Most the photos in this post are stock photos. When I was young, I read a Read more
Cuenca: November 12-21, 2018
I finally broke down, put my writing to one side, and focused on catching up with my bookkeeping. Normally I Read more
Cuenca: Novemeber 10, 2018
On November 10th, I once again found myself taken away from my writing, by the sound of music in the Read more
Cuenca: November 6-9, 2018
With the excitement of the holidays past. I had a few days where I manly hung around my condo, only Read more
Cuenca: November 5, 2018
Brace yourself! My shortest post to date! Not much happened on the 4th and 5th of November. There was a Read more
Independence Day: November 3, 2018
I was planning on going out to check out the Independence Day celebrations, but found myself messing around with my Read more
Día de los Difuntos: November 2, 2018
In Cuenca some people celebrate Halloween, but most everyone celebrates Día de los Difuntos. (Check out my favorite Ecuadorian Blogger’s Read more
Tamales: November 1, 2018
Across the street from my condo is a very tiny restaurant. It is about seven feet wide and reaches back Read more
A matter of keyboards: the nomad’s dilemma
The Early Days: My first exposure to keyboards, outside of typewriters was the card punch machine we used at the academy Read more