Posted By RichC on October 10, 2025
After posting our “trip to Utah” photos yesterday, Brenda commented that I left out her favorite from the top of Angels Landing in Zion National Park. Obviously navigating the chains was truly an accomplishment for “senior citizens” … so a few more photos and video seems justified. 😉
Posted By RichC on October 9, 2025
It is probably going to take me a couple of weeks to get my blogging bearings back, but let it be known, we enjoyed our week in Solitude, Utah with my sister-in-law Ann and her husband Gary. Thank you so much for inviting us to your condo and treating us to the great hikes, trip to Zion National Park and a “major league” Zip-Line in Sundance (a first time down a wire for me).
It is also going to take me a while to come down from the “high” of conquering Angels Landing Trail (photo right) and seeing the beauty that part of our country has to offer. If you’ve never been there … put it on your bucket list. Thanks again Gerbs … Brenda and I had a wonderful time – let’s do it again!
Posted By RichC on October 8, 2025
Our Utah trip is still fresh and the photos TOO many to sift through at the moment … so I’ll start by archiving a single photo of Zion National Park; the three peaks known as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (photo above). This might at least start the ball rolling in getting the photos and my thoughts together on our fantastic hiking based trip with Brenda’s sister Ann and husband Gary (they have a condo in Solitude, Utah).
BUT … the trip started with a drive from Cincinnati down to Atlanta and a chance to visit with both of my nieces boyfriends. They even left me alone with them to talk … way too trusting. 😉
Posted By RichC on October 7, 2025
The news of our sister-in-law Lynda Howard Glassman losing her husband Daniel Phillip Glassman shocked us all last week while we were in Utah. Dan was always a “young” semi-retired kind of busy guy and someone that I never even gave a second thought about when he was working or playing hard. He seemed the picture of health for someone in their 70s and I personally was surprised he was 75?
Our prayers and love go out to Lynda and Dan’s children Jon, Meg and their families; we know Dan’s surprise passing had to catch everyone by surprise. Like Taylor’s Megan’s dad, Dave, less than 3 years ago, the impact of a relatively young man’s sudden death is a shock (not to mention that it has me selfishly thinking about getting older too).
With deep sorrow, we announce the sudden passing of our beloved husband, father, grandfather, and brother, Daniel Philip Glassman. He died at the all-too-young age of 75 on September 28, 2025, in Green Cove Springs, Florida.
Born on November 23, 1949, in Sialkot, Pakistan, Dan was the son of missionary parents Gene and Jane Glassman. Growing up overseas gave him a deep sense of independence, a love of adventure, and an appreciation for diverse cultures, people, and languages, an outlook he carried with him throughout his life and instilled in his children.
Posted By RichC on October 6, 2025
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Posted By RichC on October 5, 2025
The first super full moon of the year is coming soon, and will be a special one for those living in the Northern Hemisphere ‒ it will also be what is known as a “harvest moon.”
This visual spectacular will appear low on the horizon, making it ideal for taking pictures or just enjoying a brilliant fall evening sky, weather permitting, of course.According to Space.com, the Moon will reach full phase on Oct. 7 at 11:48 p.m. ET (8:48 p.m. PT) when it reaches the point in the sky opposite from the sun (180 degrees).
There will be three consecutive supermoons over the coming months:
Posted By RichC on October 2, 2025
Likely, Andrew Ross Sorkin’s new book, “1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History and How it Shattered a Nation,” is not on my “must buy list,” but the Bloomberg pre-release review below (see archive.ph) has it sounding relevant and interesting. So like my buddy Jeff, I’ve put it on my library hold list and plan to discuss it over lunch, dinner or sitting on the back porch (a favorite thing to do).
What Andrew Ross Sorkin’s ‘1929’ Tells Us About Today’s Stock Market
Gary Sernovitz | 9/19/2025
There are two ways to read Andrew Ross Sorkin’s 1929, a new book on the stock market crash of that year. You can pop the popcorn and watch rich men twisting in the lies they tell themselves and others. Or you can read 1929 to match the stories Wall Street told itself then to those of today, a perversely fun project that Sorkin subtly leaves us to complete for ourselves. Both approaches are worthwhile. Neither will task your brain.
That’s because Sorkin, one of America’s highest-profile financial journalists — with twin seats at CNBC and the New York Times — does not seek to explain why the stock market fever rose and broke. It was FOMO plus debt. It’s almost always FOMO plus debt. Nor does he offer a counternarrative about how the mania could have been avoided. (“No matter how many warnings are issued or how many laws are written,” he writes, “people will find new ways to believe that the good times can last forever.”) He isn’t trying to explain the Great Depression, or whether the crash caused it.
Posted By RichC on October 1, 2025
Posted By RichC on September 30, 2025
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Posted By RichC on September 29, 2025
Here’s a song from The Bridge on SiriusXM that I held onto from this summer; I was trying to decide if I really liked it or not and so decided to save it for a slow Music Monday (that would be today). 😉
That said, I do remember listening to Todd Rundgren from the late 1970s (college dorm life) and the song “Can We Still Be Friends” but it was not in my album or cassette tape collection. I didn’t even know his history with the rock band Nazz in the late 1960s or the band Utopia in the 1970s, but it doesn’t surprise me.
While looking for a live performance I ran across this one on YouTube with Daryl Hall. It is interesting to see what musicians do late in their careers.