1/12/2024: Since Pre-Op Day, I’ve been trying to get everything done that can go on pause for a few months in hope that I’ll be able to get back to some semblance of normality. It generally kills me to have to pay people to do things that I usually wouldn’t give two thoughts about doing…
Two weeks from my surgery date. Twelve years ago, thirty years of bad habits and a philosophy that I was invincible, I blew a disk out in my back. The first twinge came three or four days prior while helping my daughter look for some of her things in our storage building. I actually felt…
2024 may go down as the most consequential year of my lifetime, if not of all time. This country is on a collision course with one of the most unethical, self-centered, democracy hating, constitutional demising person ever. Donald J. Trump, the wannabe Czar of America, is making another run at being president. But not as…
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…
I’ve had a lot to write about, however by the time I’m ready to sit down and write, I’m not in the right frame of mind. What I mean, as I’ve written before, is that my health issues are getting in the way of my ability to create. This extends beyond the written word as…
I know, it sounds like a dumb question, but Jen assures me there is such a thing. I had asked her this question because I was sitting here sweating with some discomfort that is hard to describe and it dawned on me it might be pain. Jen asked me a couple weeks ago about how…
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…
We all have them. Could be your parent, a significant other, someone out of admiration, a heroic act, a lifetime achievement, or maybe someone unknowingly that left a mark cherished by others. No one sets out to be one, but by merely being who they are, they become one. One thing for sure, all heroes…
I don’t know about you, but I do love a good rainy day. There is something calming about it. I thought retirement would be filled with many such days, but that hasn’t worked out. In fact, most of my days loafing around to read, write, or watch old westerns comes at the expense of my…
We are nearing the end of our safari leg of the South African journey. We have developed friendships, experienced first-hand life in the bush… well kind of and have seen animals that we have watched countless hours of on Discovery and Animal Planet. Our bush life in no way compares to the Europeans and North…
