Two Legends on Carnival Legend

Photo of Roberta Thompson and Gayle Butler
December 12, 2025

by Roberta Murphy Thompson It has become an annual tradition that my wonderful nephew Bryan Sneed, who founded Sneed Coding Solutions, takes his employees (plus one) on an annual  Carnival cruise to Cozumel from Galveston, TX. He is such a sport to include me and his mother and my sister, Gayle Butler on this December getaway. It is also a great time for the legendary sisters to engage in fun…

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Vacation Reviews and Libel

Reviews and Libel
January 19, 2023

by Roberta Murphy Thompson Vacation reviews are generally good and truthful and help us in making travel plans.  These reviews, whether on AirBNB, VRBO,  Booking.com, Trip Advisor or many other sites, are generally pretty helpful. But very occasionally, a review might step over the libel line and and leave both the reviewer and the publisher open to a libel or defamation complaint. This basically occurs when the review identifies a…

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From Egypt to Israel. From Loss to Love

New Year’s Eve 2018 was unique. I said goodbye to a pivotal year in my life and greeted a new decade, not knowing where it might lead. I was also on board a plane with oldest son Scott, bound for a tour of Egypt.  The trip had been planned months before, as we deliberately planning to be airborne and far away from the prior year’s loss. You see, this New…

January 6, 2023
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