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
Category Archives: survival
“With a head as full of nothing as a head could be!” That sounds like the perfect jingle for an amazing undeveloped product. I wish I could think of something to pump out into the marketplace. We’d all be RICH. … Continue reading
“They’re great people…these Nepalese guides”. That’s the final quote in this short video…and something I kind of suspected to be true. If I went into an area of the world and threw my weight around…spent my money and enjoyed the … Continue reading
Any parent worth his or her salt is going to say that they’d do anything for their children. “Why, I’d go to the ends of the earth, I’d jump into the fire, I’d give my heart if they needed a … Continue reading
I noticed a tree I hadn’t seen the other day on the mail route. I drive around tree-lined roads every day. There are a lot of trees on my route…but this was a tree that I hadn’t noticed before. I … 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
I was never this tan…or this fit…or this adventurous…but this video makes me wonder…”where’s my cameraman?”. That’s the thing about these videos…we never celebrate the guy behind the camera…chasing the tan guy up the mountain. He doesn’t get any props. … Continue reading