My family tries to get together about once a month for some kind of all-hands-on-deck family meal. Sometimes we celebrate birthdays or events at these meals and sometimes we just get together for the heck of it. At some point these outings came to be called family fiestas regardless of what the meal of the [...]
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Mr. Cole’s got flair!
Cheyenne went to Moorhead Middle School Orchestra Camp last week. For those in the area I would recommend this week-long day camp as it is fairly inexpensive (under $100) and incorporates a number of non-music activities as well that break up the days and allow the kids to get to know each other better. The camp [...]
My blue collar heart
There is a curious thing about internal identity - it has everything to do with self-perception and very little to do with the way others perceive you. This is why we sometimes puzzle over why some folks do the things they do - we operate off our perception of them which can be dramatically different than [...]
Miracle worker in a jar?
I have used facial products from the Philosophy line for years now. The primary product line I use is the Hope line - Hope in a Jar and When Hope Is Not Enough. When I started using When Hope Is Not Enough I cringed a bit at the name of the product and the message [...]
Jumping through hoops…
Cheyenne, Mike (a.k.a. Jersey boy) and I made a short visit to West Fargo's Dog Show tonight and had an opportunity to watch a number of dogs run the course. The course required a number of skills such as jumping, sitting and staying, traversing a teeter totter, running through tubes and chutes, and weaving through [...]
Smile.
Cheyenne is in music camp in Moorhead this week. I take her every morning and pick her up every afternoon via I-94. On the return trip each morning and afternoon I see one of those positive message billboards that have increasingly popped up along roadsides. This one says - Smile. Amazingly, every time I pass that billboard I [...]
The cobwebs…
The question I am asked most frequently about my blog is, "How do you find something to write about every day?" Interestingly, those who know me best don't ask that question. They know that I am endlessly fascinated with any number of things - that my mind is like an attic stuffed to the rafters [...]
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