If you've read more than one of my blogs over the years, you would know that I like to write in airports. Something about traveling and the change of scenery and people watching gets my creative juices flowing and being alone allows me the time to put some words into my iPhone as I […]
Forest Gump's mom was wrong. When we took family trips my parents only bought us one soda (Pepsi) and a bag of chips. All 4 of us had to share these items. With the chips, it was a free for all, just reach in and grab, but with the soda, there was a different method […]
I showed up for college more than a week before the rest of the school was required to check in. Not because I wanted to get a good head start on my college education, but because I was in the marching band. Now before you start making all the band geek jokes or tease me […]
Sitting and watching Orange is the New Black the other night and I randomly had a memory about having to get a sports physical when I was in high school. Weird right? Nothing about the episode triggered it-it was just one of those odd flashbacks that resurface from time to time. Not some strange repressed […]
The glow on their faces as they swirled and waved their sparklers was something out of an Americana movie. The smoke in the air and the firework shows from several surrounding towns was the backdrop for this amazing visual. The addition of the delayed booms after the sight of lights dancing in the sky completed […]
Almost the entire time I was growing up it seemed like someone was living with us? My parents would have friends that were going through difficult times and those people always seemed to end up living in our guest bedroom or couch. Wives would throw them out or they would lose their jobs or go […]
Anything and everything that "built character" my siblings and I convinced ourselves that it was something we needed to do. My parents would use this phrase often to get us to do chores or tasks that were not always the most fun. Adding the phrase "it builds character" to tasks is the equivalent to saying […]
40. I have been dreading this number for years. No real reason why, just the thought of the number makes me wince a bit. When I was young, this was a number that you associated with the people you would consider to be old. This was the age that people started to become "out of […]
Sometimes all you have to do is be remarkable one time. Buster Douglass knocked out Mike Tyson in February of 1990. He became the first person to ever do this and it changed the world's perception of "Iron" Mike Tyson. Tyson's previously untarnished 37-0 record came to an end. He became mortal in the eyes […]
I had a roommate in college that could tell one hell of a story. He had this unique ability where he could tell you the same story three times, change the ending each time and you believed (or at least wanted to believe) that each version was true. It truly was a remarkable talent. We […]