The perfect way to spend my lunch hour today, not reading news stories about the anniversary, or looking at haunting images of the WTC, but meeting my wife for lunch and spending time appreciating what we have together. Thank you Angela!
And on that same note, let me also say thank you to the inspirational bloggers over there in the blogrolls. You guys rock! 🙂
Made it home again safely. I’ve put together a gallery of pictures from the vacation here, hope you enjoy them! As if to remind me of why it’s important to enjoy these things in your life while you can, I returned home to news that one of my roomates from way back in my college…
Pin Last week, my mother in law passed away. As a husband my first thought, and my first priority, was my wife, who had lost her mother. As a man who has lost a parent, but not my mother, I also knew this wasn’t a situation where I had any experience myself. Luckily, I do know…
Cross posted from my professional blog. A funny thing happened the other day. I went back and read everything I wrote at the beginning of 2014. It made me laugh, because it was all about how the previous year had been dominated by big events, taking on a big new challenge at work, and spending…
Pin Earl K. Long Hospital, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Jan. 1997. Many people who’ve been through mental health issues, addiction, and so on, refer to “rock bottom”, that one place in time when things got so bad, they couldn’t get any worse. For me, that was Jan 1997. My marriage had just ended, I quit therapy and…
This past weekend, as I do most every year, I spent some time at the Dublin Ohio Irish Festival. As we listened to one of the many rollicking Irish songs being played, I couldn’t help but think about the history of the Irish, and the way it’s captured in song. The lyrics speak of oppression,…
Maybe that’s what I should rename this blog? Obviously, I have been slack in posting anything more than book reviews sent to me by other people in the last couple of weeks. I realized today when I was reading Marj’s blog, that even if the midst of everything she’s been dealing with, she’s managed to…
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