Jeff Westover

Recent Articles

• Humor

  It has been a funny day. We are in Saint John in the province of New Brunswick in Canada. Been here before, had a great time, not in any particular hurry to see it again. So ...

• Bar Harbor

  I mentioned the other day that we read a lot when on a cruise. Reading is like a sport to me some times and pure relaxation at others. These days recreational reading is far too...

• Seeing Old Boston

  Boston is one of those great American cities that you just have to see. It is one of the reasons we have taken this particular cruise itinerary again. Last time, we participated...

• Christmas Kin

  The brilliant sun-kissed afternoon of a summer’s day in swanky Newport, Rhode Island is hardly the backdrop you would imagine for the latest chapter in an ongoing Christmas st...

• Brooklyn

  They call this day #1 of the cruise. Actually, it hardly has much to do with cruising at all. Yes, as I write this, we are at sea, some 20 miles or so I suppose offshore from...

• I Knew It, and I Knew that God Knew It

  We zonked last night pretty early – the pace of the last couple of days caught up with us, I suppose. And we were in no hurry when we got up today. We didn’t bust out of the...

• Adventures at the Din-ah

  I just love New York. I believe one of the best ways to get to know a place is to dig down deep to what it is all about – to see it at a gut level that you just don’t see...

• Hick in the Big City

  I thought getting ready for this trip would be different than in the past. But running two small businesses meant double the work to be ready to be gone and I found myself u...

• Oh Yeah, We’re Going on a Cruise…

  How could such a detail escape me? Life has been so full the past four months we have barely had time to consider this upcoming trip. Between the launch of a new business, the e...

• Celebrate 50

  I am deliquent in making a record of Mom and Dad's 50th anniversary party which we somewhere along the line came to call Celebrate 50 (sheesh, we had a logo, fer crying out loud...

• Pride and Pre-Juiced

  The feds indicted Roger Clemens this week. No, not for taking steriods, which Clemens denies. No, not for having an affair with a 15 year old. No, not for having been documented...

• Turning 18

  We celebrated Abby;s 18th birthday the other day. Hard to believe. 18 is a tough age. The world tells you that you are an adult. In Abby's case, that has been true for a lon...

• Of Heartbreak and Hope

  Later this week we take a break from all our activities to celebrate the 50 years my parents have been married. It comes at a good time, as the past three months have been a tri...

• RIP James Gammon

  I was saddened tonight to hear of the passing of James Gammon. There aren't a lot of Hollywood types I respect much but this guy was someone special. Known as a "character" acto...

• Bigoted Mocking Hearts of Atheists

  I wish I could say I was shocked by this story: American atheists lined up to be "de-baptized" in a ritual using a hair dryer, according to a report Friday on U.S. late-nig...

• Al, Mel and Tiger: Role Models for Lebron

  Men behaving badly seems to be a recurring theme these days. Most recently, Mel Gibson -- he of the drunken anti-semetic rant a few years ago -- made the news when a tabloid pub...