Tag: Personal journey
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Yellowstone Park and COVID
My wife says it’s my happy place and she is right. My first visit was at 10-years-old with my best friend and his grandparents in their Airstream. I had never been away from home before and a trip that was supposed to take 3 weeks lasted 3 months. It was an experience every kid should…
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Hitting a wall
Results? What results? As I write this, I am waiting for my COVID test results. I was informed Monday morning by our youngest that his minor business partner had tested positive so I and my wife need to get tested. Last week he had helped me tow our Airstream to service. Since we are using…
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Independence Day
Whatever your opinion, our freedom of speech is our greatest birthright. I hate to admit it but for most of my adult life I have taken my freedoms for granted. I am certainly grateful for all the rights I enjoy but because it was always there, much like a sunrise or electricity, it was a…
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Kidney stone interruption.
I put the world on pause; if that’s even possible… Since starting this blog, I made a commitment to myself to document a week at a time. I needed to challenge myself and not get lazy or inconsistent. My thought was if I forced myself to produce every week it would become habit. The difficulty…
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Elephant in the room
Looking forward to getting away Discrimination has been part of our culture my entire life. Sadly it has continued mostly unchecked and therefore perpetuated throughout our history becoming so common it seemed invisible. Sometimes the arrests were particularly brutal and the resulting outrage gained the usual “15 minutes of fame” but then faded away like…
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Finally a haircut
Isn’t graduation over already? Sometimes the thought just appears; almost like a shiver. Maybe its the combination of COVID-19 ad nauseam, staring down potential retirement or just trying to stay focused on earning a living that is taking a mental toll. It doesn’t help that during this pandemic I have been drawn to the news…
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A Socially Distant Life continues
A 92-year-old gets a Zoom birthday. I’m not generally prone to wild mood swings but this week was difficult. I have been able to insulate myself away from much of the virus chaos by continually reminding myself how fortunate we are. Our income has been effected no doubt but we still have enough coming in…
a life always under construction 