Today when Mike (a.k.a. Jersey boy) and I went to pick Cheyenne up from school I noticed a boy waiting under the tree who had not yet been picked up. From his body language it appeared to me that he was a bit worried so I told Cheyenne we were going to stay parked at the [...]
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Who knew handy could be so sexy?
Mike (a.k.a. Jersey boy) is at my house today and is busy assessing all the handyman projects he can help me with. Goodness gracious, who knew handy could be so sexy? It is amazing the things that change as you age. In the beginning (not of mankind - in the beginning of my recognition that [...]
Family Fiesta!!!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Situation…
If you are one of the folks who regularly listen to my weekly radio dialogue with Bruce Kelly on Wednesdays at 7:10 AM on AM1100 you know that most of our time together is spent with me laughing. Bruce just has that effect on me. I love the 10 minutes we spend together each week. It [...]
The earth laughs in flowers…
Emerson once said that the earth laughs in flowers. I agree. There is a joy evident in flowers that makes the heart light - like laughter. For years, I have had a re-occuring dream in which I am living back in my childhood home and the backyard is completely filled with flowers and shrubs that come [...]
THE NEW FORTY 