Our friend, Laura, (who is from Argentina) sent me a link this morning to a series of videos from NBC’s TODAY show that were done from Buenos Aires. There were a lot of videos there, but the link/video I noticed was the one above about the most common Argentine beverage, yerba mate. Laura has gotten…
Springtime in Palmyra
I took some more photos earlier this week of the “greening” of our town. Actually, as you can see above… they were more of the redding, pinking, yellowing, and whiting variety. Maybe even some purpling. 🙂 Tons of flowering and budding going on around here, and I captured some of it on a walk with…
Greening
It’s been really warm here the past week or so. Today promises to be a bit nicer (at least, by my standards) with a high around 62ºF. Mostly I don’t like spring – probably least of all four seasons – because it means the hot weather is coming, and usually with melting snow and even…
5 Things I Hate
When my kids are trying to tell me a fun story from their day, and it’s just the wrong time and I hurriedly dismiss them in order to accomplish the task of the moment. Anytime I am mean to my wife (words, actions… however) whether real or perceived. Deadlines/promises/goals not met or kept. Seeing my…
Expectations
That word – “expectations” – certainly has some baggage, doesn’t it? I mean, even as I typed it for the title of this post, I thought, “That’s not exactly what I’m trying to say…” But I think it is. I do believe there can be good expectations. (And I fully acknowledge that, relationally speaking, there…
Polygamists and Government
I wanted to comment on the incident that took place recently in Texas, where authorities stormed a private ranch and took everyone by force, separating kids from their families, and all sorts of very not-American things. It just made me sick when I heard about it. I am not a polygamist. But I am a…
[Things That Are Weird] Phone Walkers
I tend to walk around and do stuff while I’m on the phone. Sometimes it’s even just aimless walking, but usually I am just multi-tasking. Do you? I was meeting with a new client yesterday, and he did the same thing. He just took off and started pacing his house as soon as he answered…
I’m A People Person
There’s no denying it now. I am officially and completely a people person. This past weekend we kept our friends’ three girls while they made a super-packed-full trip to their new home in the Washington, DC area. They dropped them off Thursday morning, and we had them until Sunday night. At first glance that seemed…
What Ever Happened To Steve?
We have kids. Lots of ’em. And they all like Blue’s Clues. As do we. We even don’t mind Joe, who replaced the un-replaceable Steve a couple years back now. Steve is definitely the best. Well, not really sure why, but this morning I decided to Google “what happened to blues clues steve”. Turned out…
NHL "Parity"
Every sport tries to say they have it. Parity is the word that means you have achieved ultimate sporting success. There is true competition amongst the teams in your league. But really… so far as I can tell… only the NHL has achieved such a thing. Proof is in the series between the Minnesota Wild…