Our family dog Cooper loves the sound of his own bark. For the most part, he is the only one. Cooper will bark at anything and anyone with his big, deep alpha male bark...incessantly - I should add that...he will bark incessantly until everyone within earshot wants to kill him. We have had Cooper for [...]
Tag: Humor
Big choice: mitigate or distance?
I received an informational email today from one of Cheyenne's teachers about a service project out in the community that STEM's seventh graders were going to participate in at the end of the week. The email encouraged parents who would like to participate to let the seventh grade team know. Well, Cheyenne wasn't home when I [...]
Reconciling the contradiction between words and actions…
My second oldest child, Noah, is quite the interesting character. He has a sarcastic wit that is so quick and so biting that it takes a true master to keep up. There can be no hesitation in one's responsive quip as it belies one's inadequacy to compete. I have almost 30 years in with this kid and [...]
When Sophia isn’t a viable option…
I want to believe that I will age like Sophia Loren has aged - like a fine wine that truly improves with age. Increasingly though I believe I am destined to go the route of Maxine - who compared to Sophia is moldy grape juice. Not that the two women are completely different - they [...]
Go vacuum the lawn!
On Saturday, Mike vacuumed the lawn. Yes, you read that right. Mike vacuumed the lawn. This caused quite the stir in the neighborhood. I knew it would. When I saw him head out toward the front yard with the shop vac I knew there was a method to his madness (at least in his mind); [...]
4,748 days trumps 1,000!
This is a big day in our little part of the universe. Can you guess what it is? I know one of your first guesses might be that this blog post is the 1,000th blog post of The New Forty. 1,000 days and 1,000 entries...that is pretty big considering where I started and my initial [...]
Are you in the 21%?
Whoa! Stop the presses! A new survey revealed that 21% of Americans would give up sex for a whole year ( yes, 365 days) to keep their Internet access. Fellow Americans, something has gone horribly awry in our country. One fifth of you would chose accessing information and communicating over the internet over sex. Someone get Dr. [...]
THE NEW FORTY 