Let the Sunshine in!
It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood – temps around 70 degrees in what is technically still winter. Great day to harvest some vitamin D and think happy thoughts. But somehow we don’t always find...
View ArticleLife Ain’t Easy…
No post yesterday, but I did my 3 positive-minded exercises. Of course my 10 minutes of exercise was moving around tables and chairs for the Needy/Nerdy Mixer for the Overnight Website Challenge. It...
View ArticleExploring My Personal “Why?” and Heroism
Do you ever spend time considering the why you do what you do? Do you look for the kernel from which the bulk of your actions spring? On Saturday April 7th, I attended Minnebar, a techie conference...
View ArticleMy Most Embarrassing Moment
There are times in our lives that we all wish we could do over. That one embarrassing moment that pops into my head at the most inopportune times took place in the wee hours of the morning on a long...
View ArticleMy Worst Day
In my last post I discussed my most embarrassing moment, so for this post, I’m delving deeper into the worst day of my life. [Don't worry, I will swing back to my usual cheerful self in the next post,...
View ArticleWhat’s in Your Summer Bucket List?
I was listening to the radio about a month ago and they were talking about what they planned to do for their summer bucket list. It got me thinking – what could I do this year to get outside of my...
View ArticleThe Time I Almost Joined the Military
If you’ve seen the the movie Captain America, you can probably visualize the opening scene where a scrawny Steve Rogers walks into a recruiting office and tries to enlist. That would have been me at...
View ArticleHow the St. Peter Tornado Made Me a Better Man
Trees uprooted by the St. Peter Tornado, courtesy of the St. Peter Herald It’s been 15 years today since a tornado cut a huge swath through St. Peter, MN. I’ve written previously about where I was the...
View ArticleSummer Bucket List – 2013
Have you created your summer bucket list? The goal is to be able to look back and say “this is what I pushed myself to accomplish.” So many years bleed into one another, and it’s easy to wonder what...
View ArticlePersonal Evolution and Breasts
In spring of 1997 I was invited to be on a Battle of the Sexes radio program which I lost because faced with answering either “a Big Mac” or “an average woman’s breast” for which weighed more, I was...
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