Thanksgiving 2024!

It is that time of year for me to say Thanks! to everyone who made 2024 special. A lot happened since last Thanksgiving and narrowing this page down to 35 photos was challenging. Use your cursor to rollover pictures or tap on your iPhone to see all the pictures. Thankful my good buddy, Mike, visited me and we went to a Guardians game. Rollover that picture to see what I look like traveling overseas. Seriously, that's Tintin, a Belgium comic strip character greeting people at the Belgium Comic Strip Museum in Brussels. To the right, I met up with fabulous overseas buddy, Isabella, while in Salzburg, Austria. Rollover that image to see me sitting anywhere I can at the Prague rail station showing how glamorous overseas travel is. Below (l-r) thankful I visited Deutsches Eck "German Corner" in Koblenz, Germany where the Moselle and Rhine Rivers meet. Extremely thankful I'm still playing basketball at 72 although my doctor is making me wear a knee brace. Speaking of older people, thankful to see Mick Jagger performing here in Cleveland with the Rolling Stones.

Above (l-r) rollover images to see Greater Nevada Field, home of the Reno Aces in the Pacific Coast League (Diamondbacks AAA), the 124th stadium where I have seen professional baseball. Rollover the image to its right and see spaetzle, a delicious German egg noodle dish, which I had for dinner in Salzburg. To its right, thankful to visit Bruges in Belgium and its Christmas market. To the left are my cousin Claude and Kathleen's grandchildren who I'm thankful to have finally met. Rollover that image and see Pegasus in the fountain at Mirabell Gardens in Salzburg. Below left, thankful for postseason baseball as the Cleveland Guardians made it to the American League Championship series. Rollover to see in Dublin, Ireland the quirky statue of Irish playwright, Oscar Wilde. Below middle, thankful to take the world famous Roaming Hooters T Shirt to be signed by fabulous Hooters servers all over the world. Here I am with Kaitlyn in Albany (NY) and Aneta in Prague. Thankful to attend the Leopardstown Horseracing Festival in Dublin and rollover to see the Christmas market in Kolbenz I was thankful to visit.

Thankful to visit the Grand Place in Brussels (above) bathed in Christmas lights. Rollover the image to see me with Ben, the son of a friend of mine who is now a lawyer. Took this when we ran into each other in court. Above left, thankful to pay my respects to distant cousin, Edward W. Pearsall who died at 17 in the Civil War. Rollover that image to see the great breakfast that I had in Bruges. To the left, thankful to visit Baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown and be greeted by statue of Hank Aaron. Rollover that image and see Christmas street performers in Dublin. Below, great running into friend Alex Painter in Cooperstown. Like me, he does Negro League research. Also thankful for Cleveland State University basketball and the cheerleaders who come into our section early in the games.

     Above, more picture of my 
California relatives. To my 
right is cousin Kathleen with
her fabulous daughters, Katelyn
on the left, Brittney on the right.
Rollover that image and see my  
cousin Claude with me and
Katelyn's family.  
     Above right, reconnected with 
a really awesome former student, 
Taylor, who is a great photo-
grapher.  Below that picture is
a sculpture of Sigmund Freud who
hangs over the streets of Prague.
Rollover that image and see Santa
enjoying the day after Christmas
with a smoke at the horse races at
Leopardstown.
     Below, always thankful to find 
a convenient laundromat to wash my
clothes like this one in Koblenz.
Rollover that image and find my
Christmas dinner which can be 
challenging to find while traveling
around the holidays. This was fries,
chicken wings and chocolate milk.    
     Finally, at the bottom, thankful
to be posing with the final class at
North Coast College which, sadly, just 
closed. I have taught there since 2005
and was proud to have given the 
commencement address at the graduation
ceremony. Rollover that image. Thankful
for my Canon digital Rebel and coffee 
shops on my travels to take a break at.