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One of the hardest parts of being a dad is putting my baby girl to bed. She’s 2.5 and very active at night and when bedtime rolls around, she wants no part of it. She has this quirky fear of sitting on her bottom in the bath. She either likes to stand and [...]
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How successful is the author of this blog? Well, it all depends on who you compare me to. My wife and I live modestly by some standards. We have 2 vehicles, a minivan and a Jeep. We rent a 4 bedroom house in the gorgeous High Desert of California with Satellite [...]
Tonight gave me a newfound respect for my wife. We have two daughters: an infant and a toddler. They are both gorgeous and wonderful kids but, as I am learning more and more, they are VERY demanding of their mother’s attention when I am at work as she [...]
Whew! What a difference a day can make! I learned tons today, but mostly the power of focus. I know I talk about the direction of my blog a lot. Sorry if that is old to you . . . if you are interested in the processes I go through in [...]
This morning I found I had a pingback to one of my articles. When I checked the article source, it was on a Tax preparing company’s blog and my entire article “Adventures in Credit Repair” had been copied and pasted, including my title, and author attribution was given to another person. I commented [...]
It’s a bit overcast and it’s July so it’s muggy. Since I was inside all day, this trip down the road is like a in and out and finally in again perfect focus at the beginning of a movie. 100 million ideas fly through my mind, and escape. I reach for a pen [...]
[All Rileyed Up] had a post today that cracked me up as usual. For some ungodly reason, after 5 attempts at sending my comment, Blogspot wouldn’t accept it. Cookies and milk or some devil may care reason I am sure (sometimes technology truly leaves me nostalgic for the days of one color printing presses, [...]
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A few years ago I contributed 3 recordings of mine to a “Dave Sharp” tribute album.
I learned to make pizza early in college. I still go down to the store and buy yeast, mozzarella, sauce, and flour with a few toppings and make up a little joy. Home-made pizza is my “old reliable” food. [Derek Semmler dot com] was talking about Velveeta Mac and Cheese recently. [...]
The new Harry Potter movie is out and news of its success is all over the internet. It makes me and probably the minions of other undiscovered writers in the blogosphere wonder: “What does ‘JD’ Rowling have that I don’t?” Without being a millionaire of my writing, I’ll still attempt to answer that through [...]
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