2017 Review

Happy Holidays! We hope 2017 has been a good year for you and that you
enjoyed fun times with friends and family as the year wrapped up.

For us, 2017 has been similar to other recent years – lots of work and travel.
Here are some highlights from our year.

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Terry Morgan & Associates

  • On January 8, 2018
Terry has continued his municipal law practice (mostly defending and advising cities) but has been gradually reducing his client commitments. The problem with closing out for some time now has been long-lasting litigation, with trials followed by appeals followed by retrials (his sole remaining case is in its 8th year of litigation.) But with an […]
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Strategic Community Solutions

  • On January 8, 2018
    Karen has been very busy with many clients this year. She led strategic planning retreats and planning sessions for a variety of clients. Among those was the Planning Accreditation Board (PAB), the national organization responsible for accrediting all the city planning programs (undergraduate, graduate and Ph.D.) in the country. It was interesting to […]
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US Trips

  • On January 8, 2018
We did quite a bit of traveling this year, both in the U.S. and abroad. Karen made several trips to California to see family and help her parents move to an assisted living community. We both enjoyed a trip to Boston in May to celebrate our nephew Tyler McCullough’s graduation from Tufts University. It was […]
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Northeast Brazil & Caribbean

  • On January 8, 2018
Terry’s first foreign trip this year was to Northeast Brazil. (Karen had too much going on so she had to stay home.) It was wonderful to see the scores of endemic birds that are just hanging on in the region, sad to see this naturally arid environment ravaged by drought and agricultural practices.     […]
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KT Ranch

  • On January 8, 2018
We had several trips out to our KT Ranch in Portal AZ. It’s always so enjoyable to be there. But we didn’t get out as often as usual because of the other US trips, foreign travel and work in Dallas. One highlight was in May, when a bobcat had her kittens in the planter by […]
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Brazilian Amazon

  • On January 8, 2018
In early September, we took the “Rio Negro Paradise” birding trip with Field Guides in the Brazilian Amazon. Beginning in Manaus, we birded in national parks and refuges near that city and a tourist town called Presidente Figueiredo.     Then we boarded the Tumbira and spent a week traveling on the two rivers that […]
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Africa

  • On January 8, 2018
After Brazil, we returned to the States in late September for client work, Julie’s wedding, a CA trip for the annual get-together with Karen’s mom’s sisters and cousins (and her parents’ 65th wedding anniversary!), work at the KT Ranch and the Texas planning conference. Then in early November we headed out again. Our five-week trip […]
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Holidays

  • On January 8, 2018
We’re enjoying the holidays now. We started our celebrations in Dallas with good food, good friends and presents. We’re in California with Karen’s family for Christmas and then back to Dallas for New Year’s. It’s a special New Year’s for us – it was New Year’s 30 years ago when we went to Hato Piñero, […]
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2018

  • On January 8, 2018
As we look ahead to 2018, we expect most of our foreign travel to be in Latin America. Terry intends to wrap up his law practice in favor of writing and other pursuits. Karen hopes to continue her contributions to her client communities and the practice of planning, but at a pace that is not […]
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