Here is something I have learned in my life - you set the bar for how you will be treated and valued by what you expect and accept. When I was young and painfully shy, I did not even realize there was a bar to be set. Back in those days I believed that people [...]
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Let’s talk about sex baby…
I am not sure, but I think there may be some support for the notion that it is doubly as sinful to talk about sex on Sunday - but what the heck, I have become quite comfortable in this handbasket and I am familiar with my end destination. It is interesting that after years of [...]
Piper is in the house…
Today - June 19, 2010 - at 12:46 AM, my friends and colleagues, Jessica and Dustin, welcomed their first-born daughter Piper Rose into the world. To the casual observer she may just look like a newborn baby, but to those of us who know her parents and the folks who will surround her as she [...]
Moving toward belly button bling…
Something somewhat amazing has happened to me in the new forty...I have seen my sense of limitations slowly evaporate. I am not really sure why that is. I wonder if it is the recognition that at least half of one's life has likely passed or if it is a heightened sense-of-self...perhaps it is a little [...]
What the hell…high water??
I was up most of the night with my dog Cooper who is frightened by thunderstorms. As such, I hit the snooze one too many times this AM and woke up later than I would have liked which set my whole day back an hour...and what a difference an hour can make. Today is the [...]
Year two of the new forty – the best shape ever
I noted the other day that less than thirty days stood between me and the end of my first year in the new forty. I am not sure where the time went...but it has been an eventful year to be sure. As I glance into year two of the new forty I am thinking about [...]
On compliments – fanny and otherwise…
Okay, so today someone complimented me on my fanny. Which on the whole was nice, but which came as a surprise based on the time/place. Yet, time/place aside - I try and receive compliments well whenever they are delivered so I said, "Well that is nice of you to say." And truth be told, I [...]
THE NEW FORTY 