Author: rodger

For reasons that still puzzle us, we moved from Oregon to Bristol in ’93. I took a job at HP labs and Doris finished off her masters. The job was less interesting that I’d...

We lived in Japan from ’94-’97. Rodger was working for Sony, first in the Computer Science lab and then in the corporate labs. Doris was a translator/copy-editor for the advertising agency, Dentsu. We had...

  From mid 1997 to the end of 2002 we lived the roller coaster life in Silicon valley. This was the .com bubble at its most manic. We watched the economy and the valley...

After having spent 5 years in Vancouver we thought it was time for a short adventure and lined up a 1-year ‘visit’ to Kuala Lumpur. Rodger took a visiting professor position at Sunway University...

    Since 2005 we’ve been spending most of the year in Lancaster, and since 2012 pretty much all the time here with the odd vacation in France or Canada. We’re often asked “You...

June 2002 – Proud Home-owners!! In 2002 we took possession of the keys to our little bit of paradise. Trepidation about the place (we’d really only been inside for about 10 minutes when we viewed...

When in stunningly beautiful Vancouver, Doris uses her own small business – TransPlus – to pursue her professional interests in translating, editing and writing, while Rodger combines some consulting with an adjunct Prof position...