There is a film crew making a movie around the lake in our town. I drove my mail jeep into the middle of a scene…and when I stopped to ask one of the crew if it meant that I was … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2013
I’ve mentioned before that I have a lot of books. A good percentage of my books are nonfiction…and a good number of those are self-improvement books. Who wouldn’t feel like there was something in their life that needed some improvement? … Continue reading
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9fmOY7YWMg I really wanted Lance Armstrong to be what he said he was. I guess that really goes without saying…I think all of us did. I guess that now for every Prefontaine we expect a Lance Armstrong, for every Henry … Continue reading
Dustin Hoffman starred in a movie a while back called “Little Big Man” about a white boy raised by Indians. It’s a great movie. My sister’s birthday is today. She wasn’t raised by Indians…she was raised by Norwegians. I don’t … Continue reading
It’s a fun thing to see your children get to the point where they’re introducing you to cool stuff. I think that it can happen at any age…our three year old teaches me fun stuff all the time…but it’s satisfying … Continue reading
I was helping our 3-year-old get dressed the other morning and happened to notice the name written in laundry marker on the collar of his shirt. “I wonder who ‘so and so’ is?” I thought. That got me thinking about … Continue reading
I wrote a blog post a while back that featured the story of a Mexican fisherman. It was a post about learning to either find happiness in your day-to-day activities…or figuring out a way to move on to something that … Continue reading
“There’s no difference between a pessimist who says, ‘Oh, it’s hopeless, so don’t bother doing anything,’ and an optimist who says, ‘Don’t bother doing anything, it’s going to turn out fine anyway.’ Either way, nothing happens.” That’s a quote from … Continue reading
The catch phrase for the old “Six Million Dollar Man” show was “we have the technology, we can rebuild him”. Pretty cool…it was a fixable problem. They had the technology…and they were going to make things all better. My bookshelves … Continue reading
We got word yesterday that the proposed stop to Saturday first class mail delivery has been shelved for now. Here’s one version of the story here. I guess that for all the hard language and bluster, when it came down … Continue reading