Original post can be found in Papa’s new Blog entitled “Finding Inner Strength” dedicated to the Men’s Cancer Support Group. -------------------------- I sit here this morning listening to the lyrics of a song I have listened to perhaps more than a thousand times. My music tastes have not changed in the past forty or so [...]
Spring ahead … Fall back … Whatever the reason It’s time to enjoy This brand new season … A time for hope A chance to start anew Spring is the green light Waking the krokuses Waking the blossoms To come on through … Whatever the reason It’s time to enjoy This brand new season. Peace, [...]
As a young man I listened to the callings of “the road”. I really had no idea what to do with my life as my session of public school finally ended. My love for the ocean was something I knew must continue and it was that direction I headed. To see the world from the [...]
So now our oldest child resides in the United Kingdom! I can attest for how fast the past year has flown by with Bonnie’s breast cancer, but I cannot as easily tell you where the last twenty-one years have gone. I remember key moments in my little girls life and collectively it has been nothing [...]
Should I Live to see 90 … I had no idea there was something called a “bucket list” when I was raising hell all over the world between the ages of 16 and 40 … I suppose we should introduce a bucket list of sorts to our kids at a much earlier age. In any [...]
As you know I live with three women and a female English bulldog. Why do I start things this way? I start things this way to make a point. I hope it ends that way. The women in my life live without sidelines, boards, a foul pole or baseline. They know not of what I [...]
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 [...]
Autumn. Truly the best time of the year here along the Pacific. Temperatures are nearly perfect during the day while the comforter is needed when bedtime comes. Windows open and full house of women (including the bulldog) and the football game is on with a World Series game on for later in the afternoon. Another [...]
LUCK. One of those attributes you either have or you don’t. Period. Some folks say you make your own luck. I think it’s part of your DNA makeup. One of those sayings I’ve heard, and even said a number of times, particularly as a lifelong, died-in-the-wool Boston Red Sox fan is “if it wasn’t for [...]