The Restored Majestic, originally uploaded by Eleven 22.
This weekend I partook in what has grown over the years into an epic event — “Cruise Night”
What is cruise night? Well its a throwback to a time long lost when people would drive up and down main street, America cruising in their rides.
For some reason it just [...]
Ever get in a funk from time to time? I am generally a pretty easy going person, but from time to time I just get a little morose. And I know exactly what is fueling this feeling … Fear of being ordinary.
Fear that I am not a special flower destined to bloom and fill [...]
I think one of the greatest gifts of getting old is the ability to look back on your life and ponder why you acted a certain way or developed a certain habit or way of life. One of the things that I have noticed about myself is that I tend to be hopefully pessimistic [...]
While on my way to a business dinner tonight I sat listening to a NPR report about poaching in Zambia. Great I thought, more news about the senseless slaughter of elephants, how depressing.
My hand came dangerously close to flicking the radio off, I was going to dinner after all and the thought of mutilated [...]
If you stop and think about it, my generation the thirty something crowd born at the tail end of the sixties has grown up with war, turmoil and hate.
Our grandfathers had WWII and Korea, and our fathers had Vietnam, but theirs were eras of internal hate. Racism, the ugly blotch on our society that [...]
My wife just returned from a Tastefully Simple conference in Minnesota. This was something that she really wanted to attend, and we both thought would be good for her growing business.
She currently watches two other boys with our son during the day which presented a problem — who would watch them Wednesday through Friday?
Always [...]
Cats. Yeah I know, what can I say a blog post about a cat with a crude but effective title line. The ultimate taboo of uncool for the blogging aristocracy. Well I say… <insert raspberry sound here>
Tonight was the first night that my new Savannah male (Valentino) was let downstairs to explore/be with us [...]
