I’ve been struggling to come up with my next writing topic ever since I put out my last story.  I have been staring at a blank Microsoft Word document ever since.  I enjoyed writing that story, I enjoyed sharing my world and being as real as I could be, but it sort of left me... Continue Reading →

This story is going to be tough for me to write for lots of reasons. But, it's real, and it's part of my story so I can't just write the good stuff. Here are the details you might need to know. There was a woman I worked with for about a year.   She worked... Continue Reading →

  Sometimes it's so easy being a Dad... This week the wife asked if I would take the 14 year old out to shop for an outfit for her first real no adult’s concert coming up.  I didn't know you needed a full new outfit for that?  I thought she could wear one of the 8000 shirts... Continue Reading →

It’s been exactly 1 year since I started my blog….72 Posts, 9,700 views, and 57,626 words and 1 very grateful writer.  My most viewed blog was called Red Umbrella about my daughter playing Mary Poppins in a ballet show, with 1,010 views. When I started writing stories I never did it for clicks, or likes or to sell... Continue Reading →

You know as parents sometimes you just say something to see what your kids reaction would be?   My Mom would do this to me all the time as a kid  “Did something happen in English class today?” and I would think for a second “how they hell does she know” and I would then say... Continue Reading →

Today marks 41 years of marriage for my parents.  There are lots and lots of lessons in that one tiny sentence.  Yesterday we had a big family dinner with everyone.  All my brothers, sister, wives, boyfriends, kids were there.  The table was so full you barely had enough room to just eat. Every two seconds... Continue Reading →

If you grew up with a sibling close in age I wonder if you were like me.  My brother was always just there, we had the same friends and my only escape from him was that whatever he liked I would hate.  Like for example, dogs.  He loved them so much I naturally hated them.  ... Continue Reading →

Every week my god daughter comes and hangs at my house.  When she was first born we watched her every Saturday, first for a few hours, then for a full day.  It was fun, but super stressful for my house.  My kids were growing and needed to be in a million different places and Saturday... Continue Reading →