I was sitting with my mom in her kitchen out west. Her face was half-covered by an enormous pair of black sunglasses courtesy of her eye surgeon. I was busy making dose charts for her – big block letters: Pink Cap Every 3 Hours. Tan Cap every 4...
Apparently I have developed a new hobby…this year, for the first time ever, I’ve been buying DVDs from the $5 DVD bin at Walmart. A moment of clarity has stemmed from a deep home cleaning over the holidays and re-discovering my own bin of DVDs...
February is definitely “Love Month” for me, mainly because I married my Smokin’ Hot Wife on February 28th. That is really important, but it is not the first thing I think about when I hear Valentine. The word Valentine triggers a memory of being in...
Winter has a way of making you want something sweet, warm, and comforting… without doing anything that requires a mixer, a baking sheet, or “preheating.” So here are three two-minute desserts you can make in your kitchen while wearing slippers and...
January is funny. New year, fresh starts—and somehow, a little extra time to look back. For me, January always brings up memories of cold mornings, early flights, and one very unlucky cup of coffee that kicked off a journey I never saw coming. As we...
September means another birthday has come and gone; it also means I’ve successfully made it another year without getting married or having kids. As a young boy I assumed, like a lot of people, that the universe would eventually plop me into a life...
My husband is in love and it’s not with me. I was looking at him yesterday and he has big heart eyes, just like the emoji. I caught him holding hands with his new love. Kevin’s new love is an emaciated rescue dog that was pulled by law enforcement...
So a few of you know I’ve picked up gardening as a hobby. As an indoor human I needed something that would put me outside for a few hours a day in the sunshine and fresh air. Gardening is sort of in my bones and blood. My grandpa was the son of a...
Father’s Day is coming up soon, it is a holiday where we celebrate fathers. It is not at the top of the holiday list. That honor goes to Jesus, which I’m good with. Sadly, I think now to some it’s more about presents than the creator of the...
I stumbled onto an old newspaper editorial about the creation of the Mother’s Day holiday. Which wasn’t the slam dunk you might have expected. There was a lot of argument around whether mothers deserved their own special holiday. One US senator was...