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Why I Love You All
I have had people ask why I remain so positive all the time. I have my days when I want to throw my milk out of my bowl of Cocoa Puffs onto the nearest avocado head that crosses my path but I try to...
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Chapters and Verse
We have all heard the phrase, “My life passed before my eyes”. How many of us take an inventory on our life before fate forces the action? If life is a series of moments then that series of moments...
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Paying Attention To Your Senses
If you were told that you only had a short period of time to live how would you handle it? If you were living with that family member or in their life daily what would you do? How would you act? It...
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Last(ing) Impressions
I have always been told that you never get a chance to make a first impression and this is true. I think that is a very important piece of advice but doesn’t it go the other way too? Is it also...
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A Token Of My Extreme
Love and Rockets said it best when they penned these lyrics in their song “No New Tale To Tell”: “Our little lives get complicated It’s a simple thing Simple as a flower And that’s a complicated...
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The Princess of All Blessings
Saturday night I was Santa Clause. My four-year old daughter asked Santa for a doll house. I spent over two hours putting it together but I never felt so good building something. Last night I placed...
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Waxing Poetic(ish)
The Mayans were thankfully wrong. It really screwed me up too because I changed a bunch of work deadlines to after the Mayan Apocalypse and now I am scrambling to get the work I thought would not...
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Where Did The Fun Of Facebook Go?
Welcome to Hatebook. I have dabbled in social media for nearly ten years. I started in Myspace. I enjoyed my “Spacefriends” and almost all my friends were exactly that…virtual. I love to write. I am...
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Inventory Of A Man
From time to time I will take a moment to evaluate myself. I take inventory of where I am as a father, husband, friend, or man. I look at what I am surrounded by and I ask myself how did I get here and...
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What Is The Soundtrack Of Your Life?
If there is one thing my father gave me that I will take to my grave it is music. I always have a song in my head. Depending on the song or the genre of music I can pretty well tell you what station in...
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What a Difference It Makes
Myspace was the place I first got a taste of social networking. I wrote hundreds of blogs. Most of the things I wrote about were inane tales or poems. I had a ton of followers and many nice comments....
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I Thank You
I once wrote a blog where I explained that I have had many years with difficult challenges but I never had a bad year. I have an attitude. For those that know me well this will not be a surprise but...
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My Greatest Accomplishment
The title is a bit lofty because I am only a part of what has made my greatest accomplishment so great. My little girl makes me strive to be the best I can be. She reminds me to be kind. She reminds me...
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This Old Home
What is a home? Is a home a place to simply watch TV, eat, sleep, wash, and repeat? Does a home have a pulse or life of its own? Before the age of 19 I lived in three different homes. From the age of...
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13 Years!!!
13 years ago I did not have a child. My marriage was pretty new and I still remember my wife on the phone telling my in a terrifying pitch that we were being attacked. I can remember listening to the...
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Are We Almost In Ashville Park?
In March of 2014 my wife and I went to “check out” a neighborhood. We had talked about moving for several years. We considered going up to her home in West Virginia and even kicked around the idea of...
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