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My niece sleeps with my brothers old Green Bay Packers jersey. Truth be told, my brother didn't own much when it came to valuable possessions. When we finally received his belongings, you could fit pretty much everything he owned into the trunk of a car.  He left his writings, pictures, a few guitars and not […]

Years ago, back when I was a teenager, I had a near death experience. My dad, cousin and I were helping a family friend build an electronic gate on their ranch. We were making trips back and forth from the house to the gate location, while riding on a flat bed trailer. At some point […]

Saturday is my day to sleep in.  My daughter wakes me up at 7am, like clockwork. She, like me, has an alarm clock setting in her head that doesn't let her sleep past 7am. The last time I slept passed 7am I was probably deathly ill or something. 7am is sleeping in for me.  Erin […]

My kids asked me to play blocks with them tonight.  My head has about 100 things going on in it, so the invitation of taking round, square, triangle and rectangle shapes and creating something seemed appealing. Besides, I have awesome kids, so I am into whatever they are into.  Sometimes doing something that doesn't require […]

Kids are cool.  If you don't have any, you should go get some. Buy them.  Steal them.  Just get some.  They are awesome tax deductions. We have two. A girl and a boy.  6 and 3. We'll have more once we win the lottery.  Becoming a father is the coolest thing I have ever done. […]

I am 15+ years removed from the world of dating and the thought of being single scares me to death. I didn't have the "tools" of courtship that today's single people possess.  Daters today have text messaging, social media, email and more.  In order to learn more about the person you are going out with […]

Whenever you see an interview with a backup QB, the answer to any questions about their preparation for each week is inevitably answered with this theme..."I practice as if I am the starter and will be ready whenever my team needs me". Can you really practice as if you are a starter?  You won't get […]

There is only one true reason to do it and that is to move forward.  In order to climb the ladder in life, sometimes you have to toss someone under the bus and expose a weakness in the chain.  If your story is not being told or the truth, as you see it, is not […]

Sitting in deadlock traffic, something I do twice a day in order to pay the mortgage, my brain started to trigger some funny memories about my brother Michael.  So I started to wonder about something....   The other day I realized I had 12 voicemail messages saved on my phone.  I wonder if one of […]

If you spend any amount of time on twitter, pretty much every post is about why everyone should pay attention to "me".  I'm just as guilty of posting self serving comments in an effort to grow readership of my blog or for people to actually care about something I wrote or "favorite" a joke that […]