Kim McMahan grounded in Columbus

Kim Hone-McMahan, who succeeded Jewell Cardwell as BJ columnist, took off from Phoenix, Arizona, where it was 82 degrees.



Kim Hone-McMahan

After circling Cleveland, the pilot announced that the Northeast Ohio weather was too bad to land. So he turned that sucker around and came down at the Columbus airport.

Kim writes:

“Sitting inside plane in Columbus for God only knows how long. Shoot, wish we would have gone back to someplace warm.

“Stay off the roads!”

She may need to rent a snowmobile to get back to Akron.

Kim is married to Chris McMahan.

She has written children’s books, “Vampire Dreams” and “Hoover and Honeybunch (Find Comfort in a Sometimes Scary World),” which was an attempt to help children deal with TV reports about school shootings.

The Brooke McMahan Memorial Invitational Swim Meet at the Ocasek Natatorium at the University of Akron honors their daughter, a 1999 Green High grad, who passed away in 2003 at the age of 23.

Paris trip photos

By John Olesky (BJ 1969-96)

If you want to see photos & explanations of the week-long 8^th anniversary trip to Paris by John Olesky and Paula Tucker, who worked together on Pat Englehart's State Desk in the 1970s, click on https://picasaweb.google.com/115483244393507838338/Paris2012Trip#

What about YOU? If you have jpeg photos of a recent trip to foreign countries with you and family in the photos, with details about your experiences there, email them to jo4wvu@neo.rr.com and I’ll compile them in an online album for BJ readers to see. If you have only one or two photos then I’ll just post them on the BJ Alums blog.

Also, what countries have you visited in your lifetime? Maybe I can put together a list of all the countries visited by BJ alumni with your name attached to each country you visited. 

I’ve been to 50 countries since my 1996 retirement from the BJ. I suspect other BJ alumni have visited even more nations.