something to ask your insurance agent about

I believe that ignorance really must be bliss. It seems like the more I learn about, the more things I can add to my arsenal of “maybe I should worry about that?” lists. Now here’s a video of a sinkhole … Continue reading

third day pain

What a dramatic title. Makes what I do sound so much more mythic and “trial” like. Actually, it’s more like “third day discomfort” than any real pain. I try and pay attention to my body a little more than I … Continue reading

the full-on original freak out

My youngest son went with my wife and older son to the library the other day. They go and pick out the week’s worth of books and just kind of hang out for a while. It’s a fun trip. When … Continue reading

rain and the postman

                                My kids enjoy playing a game called Harvest Moon. It’s a game, from the little I’ve seen of it, where you set up a … Continue reading

security light

We have a new neighbor. He’s developing a piece of land across the street from us. One of the first things he did was put up a big fence around the perimeter of his property. One of the things that … Continue reading

action kills worry

I wake up early a lot these days. I don’t know if it’s genetics…or just getting a little older…or any of the reasons people can’t sleep in the morning…but I seem to wake up early. The other morning, I was … Continue reading

another big day

In this life, people have big days all the time. Someone is coming, someone is going…somewhere one of us is getting ready to have some kind of big day. It’s the only real consistency in our lives…something is probably going … Continue reading

eyeballing

I’m working on a bathroom project these days. It should have been something simple. It’s not a full remodel…it’s just tearing out a short wall, rebuilding the wall, sheetrocking and taping and finishing the new wall, replacing the door with … Continue reading

Detroit…again

It’s hard to stop returning to thinking about Detroit. That’s a good and powerfully convoluted way of saying that Detroit and all those vacant buildings have captured my imagination. Detroit! What’s up with that? I was driving around (one of … Continue reading