The new resolution has already started paying dividends. Already? YES. I started a project out in the garage a week or so before our Christmas couch arrived from Pottery Barn. This project was a simple one which included sanding down a chest I purchased for Bonnie as our 1st wedding anniversary gift. Stripping twenty three [...]
Date: Sunday, December 11, 2011 Time: Early A.M. Status: Developing a Men’s Cancer Support Group Info: A member of the NY Times informed me that word counts for blogs should be in the neighborhood of 400 words, so I’m going to keep this particular blog short and sweet, and one of the reasons for the [...]
Date: Thanksgiving 2011 Time: Halftime (Green Bay vs. Detroit) Status: Forever Grateful Info: While we’re bombarded by the media on Black Friday sales and Cyber Monday marketing, there’s very little the ad campaign industry does to promote this one day in our autumn where we pass along our gratitude to those in our lives that [...]
Date: Sunday, November 20, 2011 Time: Morning Status: A Fresh Set of Downs Info: I remember not that long ago when Saturday and Sunday mornings were spent wondering if my bride was going to continue her “vicadin vacation.” Sunday mornings were normally spent planning the week’s menu, putting together a grocery list and working with [...]
When Fridays finally arrive and the windows are down while the ocean airs fill the senses there’s one thing left to do during this ten mile commute and that’s connect with “The Wild and the Innocent”; a program on the Bruce Springsteen XM channel. Each Friday afternoon I’m lucky enough to capture portions of the [...]
I met this guy named Dan some thirty-two years ago here in Petaluma. I remembered him for his great moustache, laissez-faire attitude and his extraordinary bartending skills. Our paths crossed again two years ago when I returned to the west coast which gave me the opportunity to meet his wife of some forty years; two [...]
CONNECTIONS. I should probably defer writing this until my mood is sunnier, but it has been a while since I’ve sat down in front of the keyboard (at least this one) and collected my thoughts for the blog. I’ve been working on the subject of “connections” mentally for nearly two weeks and since I hardly [...]