Category: Life Musings
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Climbing Mt Washmore
This morning we climbed Mount Washmore. Now we are serving time in Foldsome Prison. With a tip of the hat to my fellow blogger, Ms Kelsey who is putting out a plea for donated stuff and such for the NICU survival kits she puts together and distributes. And just how is it that two little girls…
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Dressing a Cat in Doll’s Clothing
This morning I had a brief flashback to my life as a very young child. I flashed back to the time when I lived on the family farm (the reality was that “the farm” was more of a patch of dirt with green wherever water was added). Anyway, the flashback came to me as I was trying…
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Birthday Celebrations
We had more than one reason to celebrate today. The first reason to celebrate today is the fact that it is the father-in-law’s birthday. Second reason, it was on this day in 1996 that Jim Dog came to live with me. I do have to say that the father-in-law is probably in better shape than old Jim…
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My Military Training and Fatherhood Skills Overlap
I was doing some thinking late last night. (Cue the peanut gallery comments here). The realization I came to (other than I will now only drink 12 year old, single malt scotch) is that my years of military battle-preparedness training skills transfer quite nicely to fatherhood. For example, one of the battle preparedness, energy conservation philosophies we…
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The Secret to Becoming an Overnight Success
After years of study and inquiry, I have found the secret behind people who are what we like to call, “an overnight success.” The secret? Years and years of hard work.
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Apparently I am an Assault on the World of Fashion
As I was walking out the door yesterday, my Sweetheart looked at me and grimaced. My instant response was to go to the defensive position, “WHAT! What’s wrong with what I am wearing!” To which she replied, “You are an outright assault on the world of fashion.” Wow. I was stunned. I actually see myself…
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Travelling with a Toddler
Okay so we thought we going all wild when we loaded the twins onto a jet and flew to San Diego over the Christmas break, but this family are going all the way out there. They are flying to Korea where they will be for six months. After that they will be going back-packing around…
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Are you Clinically Tired?
Just some observations on how to know if you are reaching the point of pure, beautiful exhaustion. First, this morning I put a scoop of my cereal in the dog’s dish and a scoop of her kibbles in my cereal bowl. I didn;t notice until I was a third of the way through. I suppose…
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Where did Community Go, Part II
So where did community go? Why do so many people choose the iPod over real conversation? You see people walking around the city all the time with ear-buds in, essentially telling all others that your voice is not worthy. You see the line-up of SUVs jockeying up to the front door of the school as…