Throughout life, I have had a love/hate relationship with inspirational and motivational posters, statements, and guides. I felt strong enough about it that I wrote my own rules to live by and included it in my book. In fact, I dedicated a whole chapter to it with lots of background to why and in some…
As you get older, you begin missing things you either once could do because of physical capability or miss it due to innocence you had as a kid. Might even be from naivety, I know there were plenty of things I didn’t understand when younger that I do now. Probably what I hate most is…
After so many years, I forget the wonderment and how wonderful seeing the Islands of Hawaii are. But this year, I’ve been reminded of the beauty and difference it is to everywhere else. To fly over and see the Big Island off to your left and Maui sitting as close as it does and then…
As Jen and I are nearing the end of our renovations to our house, we are starting to make some moves on some positive cash-flow real estate investments. We recently put our lots up for sale. If we were to get what we are asking, we’d be about four hundred percent gain on both properties….
Many of you probably don’t know what at mudbug is, let alone that there are people that eat them by the scoop full or in some cases, scoops. What’s a mudbug you ask? It is a crawdad or freshwater crayfish. Those little backward walking, in defense, critters that look akin to a lobster but on…
I started remodeling a house in 1983. Jen started before that with her girls. It started off small with a wall here and a door to create a bedroom for JD, which grew into custom cabinets and a pool table in the new space that was a bonus room. Very little landscaping back then and…
The title might be somewhat unclear. My son-in-law’s father was recently diagnosed with a stage four cancer. He is in his mid-eighties and lives a fairly healthy lifestyle. As a result of my daughter realizing a perspective that she doesn’t want to lose either of us, she has had this urgent message to Jen and…
Every two years, since moving to Texas, we host Christmas for all our kids and grandkids. It has grown from seventeen to twenty people by counting all three generations. Then we have an aunt, uncle, great grandpa, niece, and several friends in and out, bringing the total to just shy of thirty. Our kids are…
We face them every day, some are real, some are hurdles created in our sense of ability or lack there of. Nevertheless, as we face them, we are also facing our own character, self-worth, and inner desire to always succeed. Our superhero heart will always work to ensure we don’t give up, but our woe-is-me…
