Based on my experiences over the last decade, I can predict with some certainty that I will pass a kidney stone whenever I am on a flight that lasts for more than a few hours. I cannot explain why but there is no longer any arguing with the data. I passed the pictured stones after our flight to New Zealand and started passing another after the flight to Australia (still struggling with that one). I apologize for posting on this topic but this blog, now almost twenty years old, also serves as something of a medical history.

On a less gruesome note, I received a request from the Marketing & Communications Director at the Greater Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce in Gloucester seeking permission to use three of my photos in the Greater Cape Ann Guide & Directory for 2025. A sample of last year’s guide can be seen here: https://issuu.com/bostonguide/docs/cacc_2024_issuu?fr=sZTUyMTY2MDI3MDg. She found the photos with a Google search that landed her on my website.

I was happy to submit my photos and look forward to seeing them in print later this year.