For the last few years my mind has been going at a million miles an hour and I have loved nearly every moment of it. The moments I didn't love served as valuable lessons from which I took invaluable wisdom.

These realizations have been coming so constantly, quickly, and consistently that I have not had time to journal them nor, do I think, ( Read more... )

I don't know if you have ever done a gall bladder flush but it feels great now that it is over ( Read more... )

At this point I make resolutions on a daily and weekly basis.  This once a year thing is a snapshot of the moment but it is by no means inclusive.  My mind is so busy at this point that a day feels like a week and a week like a year.  Months take forever to pass and measuring 365 days' progress in one post is insurmountable ( Read more... )

This is what I posed the last day of last year ( Read more... )

We went out last night to watch the eclipse.  We went to a place in the foothills outside of town.  It was cold but we were bundles up ( Read more... )

Vikki and I were discussing our Christmas plans.  How can we afford X and Y.  We had decided to do without gifts for each other; living in this house is enough, we decided.

The conversation was about how we could possibly afford what we want to get for our daughters.

One of our dear friends called just then.  She said "I am coming into some ( Read more... )

One of my best friends from high school will be moving in with us in January ( Read more... )

I am sitting here at my desk in my home office.  I have two monitors and a 4-line desk phone on a VoIP phone system I designed and put in.  Over my monitors I see four bookcases filled with wonderful books.  To my left are my bay windows overlooking the neighborhood.  I have several plants and a filing cabinet there.  Behind me is a wall with some ( Read more... )

It sure has been a long time.  I have been extremely busy for these past many months ( Read more... )

I just finished The Road this evening.  It is one of the most beautifully written books I have read.  The words he uses are apt and poetic ( Read more... )