My mom and dad have been married 49 years today. To each other! Their stability and love for each other and their 3 sons is a huge part of the reason I am so stable in life and in my own relationships. You can’t overstate the value of being raised […]
The same recurring thought popped into my mind again this week, twice in fact. Once as I watched my girls playing with creative and reckless abandon on wickedly cool pirate-themed playground equipment, and then again while quietly starring out at the Pacific ocean: Let them never need anyone else. I’m […]
Credit card debt is FUN! No, no it’s not. It sucks eggs. I should know. I’ve had major issues with plastic debt. Ten years ago, I was nearly $20,000 in the red with Discover, American Express, and some random Visa card (probably those predators at Capital One). Even as recently […]
I am not the best writer. Never will be. I am not the best t-shirt designer. Never will be. I am not the best father or husband or son. Never will be. ********** As a younger man I would beat myself up about my shortcomings. I would think that I […]
We leave for Barcelona in exactly two months from today. In getting the kids ready and excited for our rapidly approaching 10 day journey through Spain, France & Andorra, we dug out the Bear’s scrapbook from our last trip abroad. This is from when she was a toddler some 5 […]
There are mornings, and then there are mornings when your 4 1/2-year-old daughter climbs into bed beside you just before the sun begins its losing battle against the predicted rain clouds and quietly and emotively says, as she wraps her short arms tightly around your neck, “I love you SOOO […]
As an entertainer and one who allows himself to entertain; I am getting better. It should be obvious, especially to anyone who has had the distinct displeasure of hearing me sing or watching me do something sorta resembles dancing, I am not an entertainer in the Gene Kelly sense of […]
I turned 36 years of age today. As her present to me, the Mrs. will disappear into the moist grey sky this evening. Not a magic trick, unless air travel still fascinates you in that way. She’s ditching the girls and I for a business trip, her first, to Charlotte […]
