A Walk In Alum Rock Park

ByWayne Willis January 16, 2011March 10, 2018

We took advantage of Mo’s not being with us today to take a hike in Alum Rock park, in San Jose.

Not a bad way to end a continent, eh?

Sailing With Zara

ByWayne Willis February 28, 2011March 10, 2018

Had a good time sailing last week, with a former business associate, Zara Haimo, and her friends. Zara recently bought a 36′ boat and takes it out on occasion. The four of us (Zara, Ursula, her son Jonathan, and me) sailed out to Alcatraz, up to Marin, out the Golden Gate and back. The winds…

Childhood & Adolescence | Family | Miscellaneous | Personal

My Sister, Diane

ByWayne Willis August 19, 2010January 25, 2018

I recently got to spend some time with my sister, Diane — first at a wedding, then on a long, 8-hour drive to her home and then for a short visit with her and her son, Tim. I also met her boyfriend, David, who asked about me about growing up with Diane. I gave my…

Personal

Grass Valley

ByWayne Willis November 24, 2022November 24, 2022

Rt. 49 runs north and south along the west slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California, at about 3000 feet elevation. Further east are serious mountains. To the west are foothills descending to California’s huge Central Valley. It was along this route where gold was discovered in 1848, triggering the Gold Rush and the…

Adulthood | Family | Personal

Willis Walkabout Down Under, 1995

ByWayne Willis December 4, 2011March 10, 2018

When I was leading Voice-tel (1991-1995), we opened a number of operations in Australia and New Zealand as part of an international expansion effort. I flew to Sydney in early February of 1995 to meet with the management there for the first time. A week later, Debi, Pat and Tyler flew in during winter vacation…

Adulthood | Family | Personal

An Evening At The Museum

ByWayne Willis January 16, 2011March 10, 2018

Debi and I both like artworks from the Impressionist period – and we’ve gone out of our way to see many of the exhibitions of those paintings, from the fine collection at the Metropolitan Museum in New York to the even more impressive collection at the Barnes Foundation in suburban Philadelphia. (We were totally blown…

Personal | Youth

Fort Meyers Beach, James M.S. Johnson

ByWayne Willis August 29, 2011March 10, 2018

I was introduced to Fort Myers Beach, Florida, by the Redpaths, who had a family house, guesthouse and garage there, on a property that was right on the beach. I have visited them many times there during their wintertime visits (aka “snowbirds” heading south for the winter), my first visit being in March of 1970,…

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