I'm still learning!
posted about 1 month ago, updated about 2 hours later | 2 comments
I'm trying to understand something that happened and maybe writing about it will help unboggle my mind. I now have three, yes, three Siberian Huskies. Their my own little "wolfpack" and all females. Their names are Sinda, Tasha, and my baby,Star. ...
An update on spring!
posted 7 months ago | 4 comments
Today,here in northern Michigan,the rains have finally come. I am not put off by the gray skies or the dampness.I am calmly expectant of the benefits to come.A few days ago,as I was driving home from work in the evening, I saw a bird in the road. ...
Spring is coming, or is it here?
posted 8 months ago | 3 comments
I am beginning to see the hints of spring, those first subtle signs that I've learned to observe over the years, that many people never really slow down enough to notice. Where I live there is still a coverlet of snow blanketing the forest,clingin...
My gratitude at Christmas!
posted 11 months ago | 6 comments
Yesterday, while driving to work, I had just gotten onto I-75 to begin the last hour of my commute to work. It had snowed the day before, so I had left home at 5:30 A.M., the time I normally get up to go on Saturday. The road on the first half of ...
Teaching manners, Being an example!
posted about 1 year ago, updated 5 minutes later | 6 comments
Tonight, my son and I went out for supper. We saw a new restaurant in town and he suggested we go there for supper. I thought that it was a good idea, and the place did'nt appear crowded.So in we go!
Now as most people have learned, and I was rem...
Now as most people have learned, and I was rem...
The Fury is Past
posted about 1 year ago, updated 4 minutes later | 13 comments
Since the other morning when I woke up and found that the earth had begun its reverse rotation, or so it seemed, because "Planet Eons" had made a change, which sent everyone into panic mode and scurrying like so many blind mice for some semblance ...
Love is all that matters
posted about 1 year ago, updated about 1 month later | 14 comments
I have for sometime now, promised different people,as well as myself, that I would tell this story.It has its beginning on december20,1986, the day my father died of prostate cancer. His fight had gone on valiently, for 3 years. He surrendered to ...
My son's birthday!
posted about 1 year ago | 6 comments
Yesterday, my son turned 9 yrs old. That is'nt monumental or earth shattering I know. But, it is important to me as a father because, as a friend pointed out to me, 9 is half way to 18! It did'nt bother me when, on january 5, my oldest son turned ...
Being paid for service
posted about 1 year ago | 7 comments
I am writing this here and will most likely endure a firestorm of contrary opinions,but I am troubled by the trend to reward military service with more than a handshake and a "thank-you!" I saw in my local newspaper an article about a local man wh...
Integrity
posted about 1 year ago | 6 comments
Today, I was victimized by a Supervisor at work who, in my estimation, lacks a quality I admire and respect in true leaders. This Supervisor had denied a leave request that I had made for a dental appointment at the V.A. several weeks ago. I had c...
