Of all the things I like to talk about on this blog, I think family is one of my most favorite things. I’ve written before about my mom, my dad, and my dad’s mom. But it just occurred to me this week that I never got around to talking about my brother, Braden. Today, I …
Monthly Archives: August 2020
Give Me Five Of Those
You’ve seen it before. You walk into your Wal-Mart looking for just a handful of ingredients: milk, eggs, peanut butter, and water bottles. Just enough to make it through the week. But then you see something on sale. Then another. And another. And another. Pretty soon, you’re walking out of the store with a hundred …
Dude, Where’s the Eighties?
There’s a cliché that I always find amusing: the image of the old fuddy-duddy who says that the popular music of the day is not as good as it used to be. I confess that, in many ways, I too embody the stereotype of this crotchety old man. In my defense, I do think the …
Read This Before You Go To College
For as long as I could remember, my strategy when it came to schoolwork was always “aim for the bare minimum required for excellence.” This has always translated as pursuit of good grades over everything else. My parents encouraged this mindset; even though my mother had me join different clubs like the Key Club, they …