The Traveling Ridleys: Sunday Journal

There’s one expression we despise more than most. That’s right, you guessed it: it’s “the new normal.” We despised the expression even before people started referring to the current situation as a “new normal”. As a realistic optimist, I refuse to accept this as a “new normal”. This will pass.…

We are in unprecedented territory. Stores closed, concerts canceled, Broadway and Disney World closed, museums closed, schools closed, people shifting to working at home. Basketball and hockey season suspended, March Madness canceled, major league baseball season postponed, the Master’s Golf Tournament and Boston Marathon delayed until fall. Sure there’s some…

In a week where the US government’s continued botching of and mis-messaging of the coronavirus outbreaks, we’ve been comforted by a few things. 1. We’ve each had visits with our doctor, who was quite reassuring. 2. We watched interviews on CBS News with several patients who have had the virus…

As a career-long project manager, my motto always was control what you can and mitigate the risk of what you can’t. After planning our long and winding road trip for the past seven or so years and after booking much of our planned summer travel already, risk and uncertainty and…