Nine Years and Counting
Nine years ago today I was privileged to make covenants with the greatest woman I have ever known. I spent a lot of time today thinking back to our wedding day (hint: that was back when Mother Nature still remembered…
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Halloween Tradition
Three years ago I would have told you that Halloween was the dumbest/worst holiday on the calendar. Two years ago I did say that it was tolerable. Last year if I had written about it I would have said that…
Personal Challenges
We had a neighborhood party last Saturday and as we were driving home we got talking with the kids about one of our neighbors and his son who is autistic. As we explained some basics about autism we did so…
Crazy Eights
My first blog meme – I’m not sure how I missed that Laura had tagged me with this 10 days ago. RULES Post rules on your Blog Answer the six “8” items Let each person know they have been tagged…
Establish Criteria, Not Quotas
My wife was politically low-key when I first met her. I have enjoyed the fact that she has started to become more interested in political issues and principles of good government. This morning at breakfast, without any warning, she asked…
Hillary Clinton: Babysitter in Chief
Here is another gem from Laura. She came in to my office this afternoon and told me that she had just seen a bit of a speech by Senator Clinton. She thought it very important that I be aware that…
Strengthening Families, One Cell Phone at a Time
Laura made an interesting observation today. She suggested that cell phones might actually make for stronger extended families with nearly ubiquitous features such as free nights and weekends and free long distance as well as not quite universal features like…
Every Day Should Be Mother’s Day
I don’t really care about Mother’s Day as an excuse to celebrate. I think of all the comments I heard today about fathers and/or children making breakfast-in-bed for Mom and then I find myself standing at the sink doing the…
Personality Context
Let me first start out by defining my own introversion. This will allow other introverts to see what ways they are similar to me and what ways they are different. This will also help others to have a picture of…
Victory
It was very fun to hear from Laura that she has decided to try blogging as a way to record/share her thoughts. I set up her blog yesterday and she got right to work. After all my talk about blogging…