Renaissance 2.0
I love Amy Grant and her “Oh How The Years Go By” is one of my favorites. It truly sums it all up for parents. I’ve always heard other parents say that but now I see what they mean. I remember when each of my three children were born. It feels like yesterday. It really…
It’s no secret that this is my favorite time of the year. I LOVE the holiday season. I get geeked up (more so than ever) starting around Halloween and it all builds around Thanksgiving and intensifies there after. Soon after turkey day is when I start decorating the house for Christmas inside and outside. Here…
I understand that being honest and truthful are important virtues that we must do out best to exhibit. However, I’ve learned that honesty is not always the best policy. Let’s face it, there are certain situations that would be much better off without the cold harsh truth. Sometimes telling little white lies isn’t just the…
Crazy Sexy Cancer is the incredibly inspiring documentary by Kris Carr about her courageous battle against a rare form of cancer in her liver. It’s a touching and even funny look at the way she’s fighting cancer. It premiered on TLC and Discovery Healthy in the Fall of 2007 but she was actually diagnosed in…
I was browsing thru an old LiveJournal that I used to keep way back in 2000 and stumbled across the following entry regarding a friend who committed suicide. It still hurts thinking of it even after all these years. I hope this helps someone out there. Suicide I just found out that an old friend…
The 1999 song wear sunscreen by Baz Luhrmann was based on an essay written in 1997 by Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich called “Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young“. It quickly became popular as people circulated it via email and photocopies, an early example of viral marketing. Somehow the piece became falsely…
Spike was a min-pin (miniature doberman pincher) that didn’t get the memo that he wasn’t a full-sized doberman. He got so sick at the end that I had to take him to the vet to put him down. Now I’m a big tough Italian man so I thought it wouldn’t be that tough so off…
