Escaping Enlightenment

Like many other state employees, I was blessed to have a day off for Veteran’s Day.  I woke up at my usual time and enjoyed a cup of coffee and the silence of the morning.  I decided on my three goals for the day and began to think about how many spiders might be in [...]

Today is Blog Action Day 2008 and the topic is Poverty.  Growing up, my family was not very well off.  My mother told me about my having to sleep in a dresser drawer as a baby because she could not afford a real crib.  Years later, my earliest money-related memory is that of my mother [...]

I’ve been on a hiatus for a short while, and I apologize for the lack of response from me lately.  Things have been overly busy for me and the blog is still new, so I don’t have any guest posts stored away yet (are you interested?).  Hopefully, now that some personal matters have come [...]

The family started replacing our fence this weekend.  We dug the posts and cemented them in to the ground (as per code) yesterday, and we will be putting up the fence today.
After working all day in the hot sun yesterday, I was sore and exhausted.  I felt great.  There is something “manly” about working outside [...]