Marla looks quite happy now that our Wesco fabrics’ storage locker is finally empty! The story of our company began in 1946 with Marla’s parents’ venetian blind business at 30th and Larimer Street in Denver with $4000 of capital & lots of hope. We eventually grew…
I hope all of you had a happy and memorable Thanksgiving Holiday! I like to think of myself firmly in the present moment most of the time, but you’ll have to excuse my wanderings down lanes of happy memories. I’m looking through a distant lens of…
The Thanksgiving Holiday for me is a magnified reflection on all the many blessings in my life. I have been very lucky to have reached an age where almost every day is a day of Thanksgiving and of supreme gratefulness. I am very happy and thankful to have Marla as…
Florence is one of those totally unique cities which beckons one to return again and again. Like with most beautiful cities in Europe, early visits are like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw. I was fortunate to return and spend a…
Southern California has been a big part of our family culture for many years. As a child Marla often stayed in Laguna Beach with her family. We did the same when our girls were young. We came often, especially after we built a warehouse for our business in Irvine over…
Our daugter Stacy is celebrating her 50th birhday! I can’t believe our youngest is having a milestone birthday! Stacy is a truly amazing wife, loving mom to 4 children, an accomplished athlete & coach, organizer, and entrepreneur. When she is passionate about something she is all in 115…
The heat and touring in Thailand and Cambodia with the grandsons was wearing us all down a bit. We were ready for some R & R. We flew on Bangkok Airways from Seam Reap, Cambodia, down to Bangkok, and after a layover we flew to the island of Koh Samui…
The next stop on our exciting Southeast Asia adventure with our grandsons was Cambodia. We flew on a prop airplane from Bangkok to Siem Reap by Bangkok Airways. Our last trip to this fascinating country was in 1997 and I must say things have definitely changed! The photo above is…
Have you ever felt impelled to revisit a place which was once very important in your life? While in Chiang Mai during the July trip to Southeast Asia with grandsons, we hired a driver to take us to Hang Dong and Baan Tawai Village, where we spent over 20 years…
My good friend and inveterate world traveler, Tom, ask me to join him on a Butterfield & Robinson bike tour of Tuscany. I told him with all my travels this year I was in pretty mediocre shape. He said “Come anyway, and use an e-bike and you’…