A month away. In just a month we will be partying it up in New Orleans, and I’ll be dealing with turning 50. Not that I haven’t been dealing with it for a while now. Turning 50 in New Orleans is pretty cool, though, but it ended up being just a coincidence. Continue reading “Near and Far”
Today is the last day of our daughter’s birthday month. Yeah, birthday month. Continue reading “Birthdays, Miles, and Deposits”
Is this the year of change? It most certainly has been out there in the world, with the rise of Trump and the collective mind losing of everybody on the left. But how about closer to home? Well, there have been a lot of changes going on here too, and potentially more on the way. Could be one of those transformative years? Continue reading “A Year of Change?”
Wow. It’s been quite the year. Full of sadness and surprise. Elation, celebration, anxiety, and fear. There have been some really great moments, and a lot of bad ones too. Continue reading “The Year the World was Going to End”
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”
Well, it’s finally here. Summer! A great time to get out of the craziness of everyday life of work and politics and insane people – of bills and yard work and traffic – of the news and the slow move to civil war and the coming complete destruction of everything. And what better way to … Continue reading Travel Plans
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…”
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