Snow days wrapped up on Saturday. Out of the rental house by 10:30. It was a week without writing anything. Just posting greatest hits of the blog, which is a good reminder to write more. It’s good to be back, but good to be off a while, too.
NEW YEARS EARLY PREPPER FOR 2024
With New Years Eve pulling up on the calendar, why not a new you in the new year? But I had a good year, you say. Don’t you want an even better year? Of course you do. So ? ? ?
SILENCE IS GOLDEN, THEN IT’S NOT
Now and then I’ve had to speak up. It started when I got married. Up until then I was a wallflower, a gentle person of meek disposition, always looking for others to give credit to. You know, that kind of guy. Then I got married in a downpour so loud I could barely hear the […]
WHAT SORT OF PARENT DID YOUR PARENTS WARN YOU ABOUT
Did you become the sort of parent your parents warned you about? Are you surprised? We had stern warnings growing up about kids from unsupervised homes, which meant anyone different than us. Those were houses we weren’t allowed to visit. It was supposed to be a vaccine against hard partying high school nights. […]
FLASHBACK FRIDAY TO ANOTHER PRESIDENT’S MEN
A Flashback Friday to George Bush? Just in time. President Bush came into office with a promise: “Now the adults are in charge.” We’re all adults here? Aren’t parents the first adults we all encounter? We learn to love and trust our parents. We learn right from wrong. That’s what adults do with kids, […]