I don’t need a gun. I mean, it’s not really a right I feel passionately about which sounds odd because I should feel passionately about all my rights. Once one right is taken away, we are always told, that leads to a slippery slope and before we know it all rights are gone and it’s…
The whole “Life is a Journey, not a Destination” business is really starting to grate on me. I’m beginning to feel like I’m on a really long road trip and every time I feel like I’m close to one of the destinations, I realize the map is wrong, or upside down, or in a…
I’m new to sports. Never had much of an interest in watching or participating. I mean I played tennis, but that was really only because it looked good on a college application. I grew up believing that the arts were underfunded and sports was rampant with overpaid, glorified neanderthals. One of the wonderful things about…
I like to do things the hard way. I’m pissed that schools don’t teach cursive, I still hand write cards and I worry that my children’s generation will lack culture and finesse. They all spend too much time texting and on Facebook. And then I see something like this… and I stand corrected. I’m inspired.…
Life is…well, it’s interesting. I’m pretty comfortable with the idea of reincarnation. It makes sense that our soul would come back after our body gets tired and dies. I’ve had that feeling that I’ve “known someone before” and I’m not just talking about my odd attraction to Brett Favre. Of all the after death theories,…
It appears that lately my blog has been a bit melancholy. Breast Cancer, 9/11 and heartbreak while important and relevant when taken all at once can be…sad. So, I feel the need for a little sunshine. Katlyn came home from high school yesterday inspired. I know those two things seem mutually exclusive, but she was…
Loss. When you put yourself out there you make connections with people. Some of them stick, most of them don’t, but when they stick there’s nothing like it. Man or woman, friend or lover, someone sees you, gets you and enjoys you. So great in such a big world. When you get to that comfortable…
When I was young I loved Cracker Jacks. There was a store just down the hill from my house that used to sell the small boxes. The carmely corn was yummy, but I bought Cracker Jacks for the surprise. Wrapped in red and white striped paper with the sailor guy on it, I loved the…