Yearly Archives: 2015

How does that saying go?  The one about ‘insanity’? Something like, “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results?”  I think that’s right.  The definition of insanity, right? The same thing happened about a year ago.  Really, almost the identical situation involving myself, Tony Horton, a few DVDs, and Chad’s words […]

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“I just don’t want to go to school.” Meadow and I were pulling out of the parking lot after dropping Charlie and Chanelle off at school.  It was a strange comment coming from my fairly independent 3-year old who has been talking about school next fall with far more excitement and enthusiasm than I have. […]

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Growing up they lived just over a mile from us.  We called them Mama and Big.  We still call them Mama and Big.  Grandparents of the best kind. . . grandparents who knew us.  Much like our kids have now, our grandparents were a part of our everyday life–family that extended beyond the walls of […]

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I am the middle child of three kids.  (Big sigh for the forgotten middle children.) My sister is four years younger than I am and my brother is two years older–identical to the age gap of Charlie, Chanelle, and Meadow.  My brother, sister and I had what I would call a “typical” sibling relationship.  You […]

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One of the first posts ever written in this blog was about him.  I knew I would write it even before I wrote it.  It came to me while I was on a morning run, thinking about life and processing how much our world had changed in a blink of an eye.  The post was […]

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