All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances

Dogs are in the cast as well.

At the end of life, when we make our final exit, I think the best we can hope for is that we have been relevant in a positive way; that someone will will miss us and say that life has been better for you been in ( Read more... )

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What Be Your Nerd Type?
Your Result: Science/Math Nerd

(Absolute Insane Laughter as you pour toxic chemicals into a foaming tub of death ( Read more... )

I have been trying to make this post for a few weeks now. I just did not have the time to do it. I have 20 min to complete this task ( Read more... )

Watching the younglings in our clan grow up is fascinating. There is so much anticipation or sometimes worry or stress over career, love life, kids, money. I have felt the same things at some period in the past. I just want to shout "Don't Panic! Keep swimming and everything will work out fine!", meaning what you stress on today will be ( Read more... )

Kelly and I went on a search yesterday with a recovery dog named Sigmund Freud. Sig is a very smart and hard worker and loves his work. It was a very cold and windy day in Corbett, OR and the day started for us at "Oh - dark- thirty" in the morning. On the search with us was a volunteer group called Mountain Wave. They provide communications ( Read more... )

I'm sitting in front of the most amazing Christmas tree I have ever seen. I was more excited about the process of decorating the tree this year than any I can remember in my adult life. It's in my sunroom. It's perfect ( Read more... )

One of the many terms I have picked up in the nearly 3 decades I have spent in the TV business is "First Birthday". Coined by someone at Ampex, it's a more refined term than "factory reset" and implies a rebirth of the thought process. In the case of a machine it a restart of it's programming without all of the learned changes, in a human it is a ( Read more... )