Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips We need a touchscreen television that interacts just like an iPad. At least we need one in my house. I have the original iPad with WiFi only. I like it and have learned a lot by having it. My main use for it is: Showing kids’ videos to my grandson (2 1/2 [...]

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by Dwayne Phillips A short thought about “play.” I like to play with my grandson. When I thought about this, I realized that this is one of the few things I do in life where the word “play” appears. Another place is when I play the guitar. I enjoy that as well. One outcome of [...]

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by Dwayne Phillips Life takes a wonderful pause – my daughter-in-law gave birth to a beautiful little girl – Leah. This is the first girl born into my line of the family in about 75 years. The wait was worth it. For historical reference, see when my grandson was born.

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by Dwayne Phillips I reminisce about tracing paper. When I was a kid, I would trace things. Now that I think about it, I recall tracing some things when I was in graduate school working on a PhD. Whoa. Anyways, I would trace things. These things were for school projects most of the time, but [...]

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by Dwayne Phillips It was the spring of 2006. I had been in California visiting the Contractor for several days. I flew home on Friday, caught the usual cab, and walked into an empty house. Adam, my youngest son, was playing in the high school jazz band. He was playing bass while his friend Arash [...]

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by Dwayne Phillips summary I live in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington D.C. To be more specific, I live in Reston, Virginia – a planned community. This is a good place to live, have a family, find good jobs, good medical care, good entertainment, and so on. Just Google for “Reston 50 best places” [...]

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by Dwayne Phillips Well meaning managers often start new activities. The activities are not sustainable, and the well meaning manager gains a reputation as a liar. I am a grandparent. I have one grandson who is now 23 months old (I have to put up a new photo of him sometime . Grandparents engage in [...]

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by Dwayne Phillips A list of activities that are a lot of work. On a recent visit with family in Louisiana, a group of us discussed: decorating cakes for weddings sewing and making clothes cooking for 50 people and a few more things like these The consensus was these are a lot of work. To [...]

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by Dwayne Phillips I spent 19-26 August in Louisiana visiting family. Here are some of the things I noticed. Cars broken down on the side of the road – many of them. The New Orleans Airport: (1) small and unused for a city that depends on tourism, and (2) as inefficient and slow as ever. [...]

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by Dwayne Phillips Staying in other people’s houses shows what I miss from my own. I am in Louisiana for a week visiting with family. There are items that I have in my house in Reston that are not in the houses I am staying. I understand that these are personal preferences, and that everyone [...]

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