When I was in high school and college I fell hard for Jonathan Demme’s brilliant concert movie Stop Making Sense. I wasn’t really that big a fan of the Talking Heads at the time, but I loved the experience of seeing the movie. It made me a fan. It was unpredictable, kind of dangerous, and … Continue reading Stop Making Sense
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”
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”
We’ve been on vacation! We are a little over a week into our time on the Jersey Shore hanging out at our family’s cottage in Ocean City, NJ. Continue reading “Summer Travels and Family Hanging”
Songs can define big moments in life, and there have been a number of songs that have been there alongside our big moments. From the first concert my wife and I went to when we first were dating, to our Last Dance at our wedding, to the Beautiful Day of taking our daughter home after being born… Continue reading “A Lifetime of Music #4”
Here are some more selections from my collection of music favorites over the years. This time around lets remember back to first seeing Jesus on that barstool in Miami, get Way Away listening to sympathetic lies, and reflect back to a fond memory. Continue reading “A Lifetime of Music #3”
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
Wow. This week is my wife’s and my 20 year wedding anniversary. It falls on Wednesday the 18th, but, of course, that day was a Saturday 20 years ago. We are taking Wednesday off work and are going to hang out together. Continue reading “It’s been 20 years…”
*Post 2 in the look back at my long ago journal – and an entry I made on February 7, 1997*
In college I majored in accounting. I didn’t start with the plan of majoring in accounting. In fact, I was given a warning by a counselor at my college about majoring in business at all because “when you get a business degree you have to take accounting and you will have three hours of homework each night for every accounting class you take.” Continue reading “The Exam”
With the cloud of change seeming to continue to hang over me, I decided to take one of the bulls by the horns today and change some things up. There are these areas of our house that just seem to get in these long ruts of neglect. I went after two of these areas today. Continue reading “Change”
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