I’m going to build a treehouse. It’s going to be smaller than this one, though. I don’t have the time to build a giant house in the woods for the kids to screw around in. I have bigger fish to … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2015
I’m listening to “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” again while I drive around delivering the mail. I’ve done that before….but I guess that I pick something new out of it every listen, so the repetition is probably alright. This … Continue reading
What the heck? You’re going to rent one of these things to live in? You’re going to fix one of these things up to make it good to live in….while YOU’RE RENTING IT?!! Really? That’s pretty insane. But….maybe I’m too … Continue reading
I was going to write about the Duggar family, but couldn’t imagine how I’d do it or what I’d say. I’ve heard that if you don’t have anything good to say that you shouldn’t say anything. Maybe if you don’t … Continue reading
One of my five-year-old’s favorite movies is this one….The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. I really should say, “One of my almost six-year-old’s” favorite movies….but Jenny likes me to wait until the day of the birthday to claim the “6-year-old” … Continue reading
“HAH!!! LOOK AT THAT HOJO WITH THE PADDLEBOARD WIGGLING ALL OVER THE BACK OF HIS PICKUP!! THAT THING IS GOING TO FLY OUT ANY MINUTE!!! I WONDER IF HE’LL NOTICE? MAYBE I CAN SCOOP IT UP IF IT FLIES OUT….HMMMMMMM…..WHAT … Continue reading
The cat goes crazy when I go downstairs to make my coffee. That’s our routine….I creak on the top step, she hears it…knows I’m coming to do some things in the kitchen…and, also, knows that I’m going to open a … Continue reading
I heard a story on the radio the other day that was kind of interesting. It seems that when MIck Jagger was starting out in music, his vocal style was a little too refined for a blues band. An upper … Continue reading
Terrifying. … Continue reading
I heard an interview with Eric Weiner, the author of The Geography of Bliss, on public radio the other day. He was talking about something that he called “thin places”….places “where the distance between heaven and earth collapses and we’re … Continue reading