Random Past Posts
Child Advocates’ Superheroes Run 2014 Last weekend was the second annual Child Advocates Superheroes Run -- "powered" again this year by my buddies at MRE Consulting. The money raised helps some of the 5,000 or so children in the city of Houston who are in More...
Ironman Cairns (Australia): Swim / Bike / Rain! I was a little busy, so the photo credits here go to others (Stacy Humphries and the photo service FinisherPix). One of my best friends is Australian. You’d never know it, though. He moved to Texas in his youth More...
Final Four Fortunately for me (but sucking for him), my friend Scott had tickets to the Final Four Championship game, but wound up being out of town on game day. I got to be Stacy's "date," and join the Merzes for More...
Sikhism’s Golden Temple The Golden Temple in Amritsar, India, is the Sikh religion’s version of Mecca or the Vatican. Devout Sikhs make pilgrimages to the Temple to bathe in the huge surrounding Pool of (holy) Nectar. They claim that about 100,000 More...
Iran: Blue Tiles of Isfahan In the time period roughly between Christopher Columbus and George Washington, early-day Iranians were on the other side of the world doing some pretty impressive things with blue and yellow tile. The city of Isfahan was the capital of Persia More...