You Can’t Get There from Here

As we get older, people sometimes discover that the most meaningful gifts aren’t things or experiences, but memories.

Karl Wiegers
Crow’s Feet
Published in
6 min readMay 6, 2024

--

A photo of a young man looking at a map and scratching his head.
Image by gpointstudio on Freepik

For my mother’s 85th birthday in 2011, my two siblings and I wanted to give her something especially meaningful. Mom was living in a nice apartment in a retirement community. She didn’t have space for, or need, any more…

--

--

Karl Wiegers
Crow’s Feet

Author of 14 books, mostly on software. PhD in organic chemistry. Guitars, wine, and military history fill the voids. karlwiegers.com and processimpact.com