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It Is Okay To Dream
A little over 20 years ago the U.S. began the Gulf War with Iraq. I remember watching the bombs fall and the sky lighting up on TV as Iraqis fired anti-aircraft weapons toward the sky as US fighters flew overhead. I was eleven years old at the time and I remember not being able to distinguish what I was seeing on TV between what I saw in the movies ( Read more... ) -
My Life On The Water
Fishing has become one of my greatest passions. It started at a very early age when my Dad would take me and my cousins down to the Colonnade at Lake Junaluska and we'd catch small bream. It was fun and simple but my hunger grew fast. As I got older, catching 20+ bream in an afternoon offered little in the way of a challenge ( Read more... ) -
Jouney To McSwain-Mecca (Disneyland)
The Disney name has been a household name since the 1930s. In the early 1950s Walt Disney decided to put into action his dream of an amusement park that would begin a revolution in entertainment. The revolution is on going today as people still try to copy and try to recreate Walt's vision. Walt's vision was Disneyland and it opened in 1955. He ( Read more... ) -
To Walk With An Angel
There are those people that I believe are truly angels on earth. The ones that touch lives in such deep and profound ways that words can't describe it. The ones that have the ability to make the saddest of us laugh and make the happiest of us cry from laughter. The ones that always know the right thing to say in the toughest of circumstances. The ( Read more... ) -
Life In A Bubble Never Felt So Good
I've been fortunate to have had only four employers since I joined the working force almost fifteen years ago. You look at it that way and it is a little shocking. I've been paying taxes for almost half my life. If Wilson still reads my blog, that will get a snide laugh out of him ( Read more... ) -
New/Used SUV (An On Going Theme)
So whenever a new/used car comes into the fold it inevitably makes its way into my blog. So Tresca and I had a fleet of three vehicles, two of which were approaching the 150,000 mile mark. The biggest concern being my beloved GMC Envoy, a truck that has been a work horse in my fleet. I purchased it back in 2005 with just under 70,000 on it. So I ( Read more... ) -
Kind of Hits Close To Home
I've long been a Garfield fan. Not the President but the cat. I use to read his comics religiously as a kid. It wasn't until recently that I added the "Garfield plugin" for my iGoogle page. So now I can keep up with my favorite cartoon cat.
Anyway, yesterdays strip hit a little too close to home.
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The 1st Marines and World War II
Several years ago, my Dad told me about a new mini-series HBO, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg were producing that would follow the First Marine Division's march through the Pacific during World War II. Hanks and Spielberg created Band of Brothers back in 2001 and my father and I were blown away by it. Hanks, a WWII buff was inspired, following his ( Read more... ) -
Pact With God
I'm getting to the point where I'm starting to repeat myself. In the back of my mind I think I've already talked about my "Pact with God". If I had this entry will take a different look at it and focus more on the, repeating myself, part ( Read more... )
