Happy Birthday, Danny

Saturday my brother turned 53. I wrote about him three years ago and thought I would repeat some of that post:
My Brother
I do want to write a little bit about my brother, since he turned fifty last week on August 23. Some of you who know me might be shocked to even know I have [...]

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131 Words

One of the most pleasant things I get to do as a Father is spend some afternoons at the local Verizon store with people who look like me in that we all have a clueless, helpless, frustrated, blank, desperate…..look on our face. We come together, from all over the network, and perform certain rituals. We [...]

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Six Words….

There was an article in the Life section of our local newspaper that I found fascinating. It was about a book entitled “Not Quite What I Was planning-Six Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure” by Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser. The idea was to tell a story using only six words. Supposedly it started  [...]

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Opening Ceremonies

I am so impressed. I didn’t get to see all of the Olympic opening ceremonies but what I saw was pretty breath-taking. The 2008 drummers, the fireworks, the athletes marching in under their flags, and finally seeing Li Ning, the 1984 six time gold medalist ascend into the air to light the torch was beautiful. [...]

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Saint Mark

From now on I want to be called by my proper title: Saint Mark. I like the way it sounds, it has historical and biblical precedent, and it would make me feel good. Before I suggest this idea to my family (they can call me Saint Dad or Saint Sweetheart), I might try to run [...]

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Starting fresh

Welcome to this new blog. Since I have helplessly forsaken “Treeology” and wanted to start writing again I thought I would start fresh rather than try and resurrect the old blog.
So here it is and I want it to be a spring of fresh hope and encouragement for anyone who stumbles upon it parched and [...]

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