“You just have to put your mind to it….and that’s what scares people.” What a tremendous thing it would be to…in addition to an education…give a kid a place to stay that was their own. What an education it would … Continue reading
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I was going to use this song in yesterday’s blog post. It was my daughter’s eighteenth birthday…and I remembered the line in the song that said “and live like a flower”. What could be more fitting than that for … Continue reading
A parent’s goal is to make things better for their family. At least, I think that’s what a parent’s goal should be. I changed out the starter for the fourth time in the little Toyota truck my daughter drives … 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
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
If there wasn’t anything going on that might hurt the environment, I doubt I’d ever hear a thing about fracking. I’d just fill up at the pump with cheap gasoline…or heat my hot water with cheap natural gas….and enjoy the … Continue reading
Stopped to talk to a buddy who’s refurbishing an old house on his property. He’s using a lot of red oak tongue and groove paneling that he had milled from some lumber that he had drying out for a couple … Continue reading
One of the legends of rock, and one that I never really understood, was the request that Van Halen put into their concert rider that asked that a bowl of M&Ms be placed in their dressing room that contained … Continue reading
image from slowcoast.ca I think that we’re desperate for authenticity in our lives. There is so much that we are surrounded by that doesn’t have any lasting importance. Why should it? It doesn’t drive the wheels of commerce to have … Continue reading