Thoughts – Page 5 – dave's word

October 27, 2016

Dancing Queen

You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
See that girl, watch that scene, digging the Dancing Queen

In the late 70’s when I was 9 or 10, I found myself in a store staring at a 45 record. I didn’t own any records – at least none like this. I had some children song collections and a Mozart album. This was different, though. This was soaring and uplifting and fun. This was about being older, having the time of your life, at the unimaginable age of seventeen. Continue reading “Dancing Queen”

September 25, 2016October 27, 2016

Monarch Pride and a Visit

So yesterday was an interesting day. It was ODU football gameday and we were in the middle of enjoying a warm day of tailgating when a golf cart pulls up to our spot. Inside are ODU Athletic Director Wood Selig and former ODU basketball great Darius James. They asked my wife if this was spot 14 and then asked for me! Continue reading “Monarch Pride and a Visit”

September 21, 2016October 27, 2016

And then the floods came…

It’s been quite a September for us so far this year in the weather department. A month of storms, rain and flooding. Earlier in the month we had to deal with Tropical Storm Hermine, which dumped almost 5 inches of rain and caused our neighborhood to get flooded. Continue reading “And then the floods came…”

September 21, 2016

Finally, Some Good News

After a long wait I finally got my prostate biopsy results. Negative for cancer! Finally, some good news… Continue reading “Finally, Some Good News”

September 5, 2016September 5, 2016

It’s the End of the Line – and a New Beginning

Well, here it is – the end of the summer. And tomorrow starts the first day of high school for my daughter. High school. She’s understandably nervous. We’re nervous, too. She has a lot to look forward to, though. Continue reading “It’s the End of the Line – and a New Beginning”

August 31, 2016August 31, 2016

Not High of the List of Fun Days

Yesterday I finally went in for my long dreaded prostate biopsy. It’s something I have thought about as a possibility for many years and has been weighing largely on my shoulders for a good part of this year. Continue reading “Not High of the List of Fun Days”

August 14, 2016August 31, 2016

A Lifetime of Music #5

How can life feel like it has lost all it’s meaning while at the same time be so emotional? How can you sometimes feel so hopeless and lost, but yet plan for the future? How does one worry about the lawn or money or work or the dog barking next door when everything could be snatched away in an instant? Like it has for people we used to know. How do we go on knowing it will happen to us too? And why and how, if life is so fragile, have we made it this far? All the big questions to keep us up at night – and to write songs about – and to listen to songs about. So while the World Spins Madly On for, hopefully, our 100 Years, let’s do our best to Float On. Continue reading “A Lifetime of Music #5”

August 5, 2016August 31, 2016

Life Keeps Updating

Things have been busy since we have been back from vacation. Work has been crazy, because I had a lot of catching up to do and I needed to meet some deadlines. The weather has been hot and I’ve been dealing with some kind of something – allergies? I don’t know. It feels like it’s been going on all summer – kind of an asthma thingy, being tired, achy – that kind of thing. Anyway, stuff has been happening, so let’s do an update. Continue reading “Life Keeps Updating”

June 7, 2016June 18, 2016

And the train keeps rolling…

All the life things are happening – and in some ways happening too fast – while in others – it just seems to drag on forever.

My daughter and wife are out at a solo assessment for my daughter’s school orchestra. It’s where she has to perform for a judge for her year end assessment grade. Continue reading “And the train keeps rolling…”

May 31, 2016June 2, 2016

Memorial Day

My family and I spent this past Memorial Day weekend up in the mountains – hiking, exploring, watching sunsets, and always on the lookout for bears. We even saw one! We had a really good time. Traveling on this weekend has been a little tradition for us for the past 10 years or so. For … Continue reading Memorial Day