(You’ll see links to other DS2 birthday posts below.)
September 30th AGAIN? Already?
Yet again, I’m stunned to think that it was that long ago that my sweet boy appeared on this planet.
He is swiftly turning into a young man; a teenager in truth and fact. Beyond the awkward puppy stage he is not only sprouting up [...]
G returned today from the Joint Theological Conference. He was there with a display.
I could have gone, I guess, if I wanted to spend $400 for a conference for a job I don’t actually have yet.
Sounds like it was a good conference and the “hospitality” was good too.
He got to spend time with a lot [...]
As I mentioned yesterday, I feel stuck in a “glass half-empty” frame of mind. There really is a lot in my life that is going well.
DS2 is doing well in school and enjoying soccer and being an “only child” of a sort – until DS1 comes home.
DS1 is doing well in school and enjoying intramural [...]
I have to admit that I’m in an intense “half-empty” frame of mind. This is my attempt to count those blessings I can see and/or to cast the best possible light on what I’m going through.
The weather has been especially pleasant lately. To the point of making me forget that it is late the end [...]
and once in a while at the job I had 2001-2003 (the place where they laid me off while I was on short-term disability), but never with the sheer balls I witnessed today.
Our 9:00a.m. team conference call was supposed to be about “New Employee Orientation Needs Assessment.” It’s been clear over the last couple of [...]
Last Saturday was Talk Like a Pirate Day and I completely forgot to utter a single “Argh!” or “Aye, Matey!”
I guess I was a bit distracted by the other Big Focus of the day: visiting DS1 in Ames.
G and I had planned on bringing both dogs down with us because DS2 was supposed to be [...]
Around lunch time I noticed my personal blackberry was acting sort of wonky. Buttons wouldn’t push and it was “clocking” no matter what I tried. Took the battery out a couple of times to try to reset it. The third time it worked.
Once I had it booted back up I saw I had four voice [...]
Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell
— — — A year ago (or longer) on This Journey…
something I realized today 2008
For the last several months I’ve struggled with finding time to write blog posts. It’s not that there haven’t been topics – goodness knows I’m surrounded by topics! – but more that I didn’t have time or energy to develop them. So, I fell into the habit of using Facebook as a blogging surrogate. Short, [...]
If you’ve know me for any length of time you know I’m a strong and outspoken advocate for the idea that people battling depressions cannot just “snap out of it” any more than someone can “snap out of” diabetes or cancer.
Why then, do I continue to act as if I could just get some time [...]
