I tell you what…

Sometimes I think I have a constitution of iron. Nothing phases me much, I can remain calm in the most chaotic of circumstances and keep the people around me calm as well. This works great when an 11 year old cub scout gets his head busted open by a rock, or when your mother dies and 15 people you don’t know show up to console her husband and ‘the family’ and all you really want...
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Computer Crashes = Time Wasted

Just suffered through one of the most harrowing computer crashes that I’ve personally gone through. On the whole, these things don’t happen to an individual very often in a lifetime. Even though I seem to help a lot of people through them this is probably the 2nd time it’s actually happened to me. The first time was a work computer – the entire drive crashed and burned...
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WordPress and the iphone

I’m in the kitchen cooking cinnamon pork chops, parmesan herbed rice, and some kind of carrots that I forgot the name of. Butter, spices, it’s beside the point. The point of this post is that I’m in the kitchen. On my iPhone. Posting to my wordpress blog.Yes there is a wordpress app. Makes keeping updated a snap. Plus I can moderate comments here too. I love technology. And...
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There. I updated it.

Once I got started, it only took a few minutes. I always forget how easy wordpress is. Thanks wordpress!
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Easter 1993

In our home we have an Easter tale that involves several branches of the family and affirms our family’s long tradition of teaching our girls to be at home in the outdoors. In 1993 me and the hunka had both of our oldest daughters living with us in a town over near Dallas called Cedar Hill. We were renting an older home over there near my step-step parents. My step-step parents are actually...
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Iran 2010 verus Iran 1979

31 years, 1 month and 5 days ago there was a revolution going on in Iran. The people clamored to the streets to protest, chanted to Allah, and wanted their freedom from their dictator and tyranny in their government. My family had been living there for 2 years. In one blink of an eye we lost everything, were whisked to the airport and evacuated out of Iran – without my Dad. My mother,...
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