I was sitting in my back yard one evening this past week, tiki torches lit and providing a soft glow to my patio – fireflies slowly rising from the lawn, and I couldn’t help but wax nostalgic about summers gone by. As a kid growing up (many moons ago), summer was the one of the best times of the year. Free from the shackles of school until September, the long, lazy days were a wonderland of childhood imagination, play, and…
It’s funny how life works sometimes. You search high and low to try to accomplish something or complete a specific task, and yet it somehow eludes you. So close – but just out of reach. If you’ve followed my blog over the years, you know that my employment background has been less than stable over the past three years. As a quick refresher, I was unceremoniously exited from the world of IT in 2016, my position with IBM being off-shored…
In case you didn’t know it, Father’s Day is coming up on June 16th. I know for many of you who are not fathers, this generally comes as a surprise – as it appears that other than Hallmark, Home Depot, or Lowe’s, most people don’t think about what to do for dear ‘ol Dad until late in the evening on June 15th. Don’t fool yourselves – we Dads know what’s up. Now Father’s Day is much different from Mother’s Day. …
There was a time long ago – as a young man, when I would watch all of those MTV videos of male rock stars dancing and singing amongst scantily-clad women (Van Halen’s “Hot For Teacher” comes to mind for some reason as a perfect example) and I would say to myself, “one day, I’m going to live in a house full of women.” Be careful what you wish for. Like some demented genie or cursed monkey’s paw, fate has granted…