Boy oh boy, the shopping season has definitely hit us. Just this weekend I was at a hockey game and they had a FANTASTIC deal on all of their sweaters (that’s a jersey for you football and baseball fans). Now here it is “Cyber Monday” and my inbox is crammed with offers on goods from…

It’s that time of year when everyone turns their eyes toward thankfulness. Why not? I mean, if we only have to do it this one time, or maybe a couple of times for this week in November, that’s not so hard. We can just fake it ’til we make it, then go back to complaining…

As I sat in the midst of my writer’s block I made the MOST AMAZING discovery – my computer gives me the names for the various emoji that I can use! Now before we get too far along on this rabbit trail, let me tell you how to make this happen. So on my Mac…

Sorry all you older guys out there, this has nothing to do with Dudley Moore or Bo Derek. Today I’m thinking about Step 10 – “Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.” This last week it was brought to my attention that I had made a careless remark that…

For some folks Sunday Nov 1 was the best day of the year: set those clocks back and get an extra hour of sleep! I’ll admit, I am much happier about falling back than springing forward. Yet for all the trouble it is to reset the clocks, my body can’t agree with what the clocks…

Halloween is rapidly approaching. The talk in the office today is the two of us who will be in on Friday trying to decide what theme to adhere to. It’s fun to be someone else for the day. We could have all kinds of debates about the “rightness” and “wrongness” of Halloween, but for now…

Wow! Last night I finally got the opportunity to see a recital at the Walt Disney Concert Hall at the Music Center in Los Angeles. I have been outside of this stunning building many times in the past and have been amazed at the architecture that features whimsical walls of curved sheets of stainless steel.…

Today we got up in the wee hours of the morning to drive to Orange County. My wife is having cataract surgery this morning, so we all piled into the “Jesus Chrysler” for a road trip.  Part of the surgery for the cataracts includes a Lasik procedure. I’ve always loved lasers, ever since seeing them…

Here I am again, still in Tennessee working on a house…last week it was digging ditches, this week we are hanging drywall on the walls. By now you probably can guess that it got me thinking about recovery! When we went into the house another crew had already put up the studs for the dividing…

So this weekend the family and I hopped on a plane and flew to Nashville TN. We are taking some time to visit our family here and helping them build a log home.  The first two days went pretty easy: hang out with the family; go to church; swim; watch football; we even went to…