ME Hey, I noticed you’ve been a little irregular lately. HIM Yeah, you know how it goes. Some days it’s good, some days it’s not so good. That’s life. ME No, I mean I’ve noticed that it’s been pretty inconsistent for a while now. HIM How do you know it’s me? It could be one of the other dogs. ME I walk around the yard picking up your crap. It’s one of the perks of being a dog master. I…
Spring is sneaking in on little cat feet. Stealing from me as it comes. It started a few weeks ago after one of the first 70 degree days in Charlotte after what’s seemed like a decade in the 30s and 40s. I lost my favorite long-sleeve shirt. One of the shirts that live for few months outside of a plastic tub in the attic. I searched everywhere. Gone. Oh well, I’m getting old. You lose things when you’re old. Then we went to…
I was born and raised in NE Florida, just south of Jacksonville near St. Augustine. The best days of the first half of my life happened there. When I was 13, my family moved west, out of state. It’s not an easy transition, removing a teenager from the fertile soil of their childhood. I have since moved back to Florida many times. And left many times. Mostly for opportunity. Because Florida is in my blood, I’d move back there tomorrow…
That time rushing to your daughter’s school to deliver an “egg drop” vessel for science that she left on the kitchen table wasn’t on the list. And you learn that she doesn’t need what you brought, after all. And so you watch the last few minutes of the experiment amongst excitable, untainted young humans. And you think you could spend an hour writing about the ten minutes you just spent in such a glorious environment. And as you walk away she shouts…
Gary Vaynerchuk is a successful businessman. And he has over a million Twitter followers to prove it. When Gary gives advice, people listen. I am not a successful businessman. That is, not in terms of how most Americans define business success. I have something like 2,000 Twitter followers, so my advice is sketchy at best. But I’m going to share it anyway. We’re small. We live on a rock orbiting a star flying through the infinite universe at a million miles an hour…
I recently underwent a procedure to clear up some future skin cancer on my face. I was using a product called Fluorouracil which attacks cancer cells below the surface of the skin. I was to use the product for 30 days. I lasted 18. These pictures were taken on the 18th day. Here’s another shot taken the day before I gave it up. My face hurt like the worst sunburn ever. It itched. It was tender to touch. Every time I…
