-
24 days to 2024
You ever have the feeling that an upcoming year is YOUR YEAR? That’s where I’m at right now. I can’t tell you what will happen or what will be so awesome, but something great is coming. I wish I knew or could express how excited I truly feel for 2024. I haven’t felt something so…
-
Daily Prompt 12/7/23
There’s been many positive events so far this year! -Successfully coaching soccer and lacrosse teams -Boy #2 getting accepted at his first choice college -Girl and Boy #3 winning multiple awards last spring -Bonus parents moving here -Getting the Squatter out of the house -Top surgery last month -Getting my old awesome therapist back -Continuing…
-
Daily Prompt 12/6/23
I regularly see squirrels. That’s the extent of my “wild animal” viewing, although sometimes we will have a deer or two wandering around the neighborhood. Of course there’s always birds around but I don’t think of regular birds as “wild animals.” Overall, I’d say my opportunities to see wild animals around here are very, very…
-
Excuse me, sir
Since my surgery, I have been venturing out slowly and steadily. This past weekend I had to go to the pet store to grab some hay for the guinea pig. It was later in the evening than I’ve usually gone there, so I felt a little bit of familiar worry about being out after dark.…
-
Shaking off Judgment
For once in my life, I am not worried about what others think of me. I have finally reached a place where I no longer rush to judge others. I find that in “real-life” outside of the military culture I existed in for over 20 years, it’s so much easier to not judge others. The…
-
Daily Prompt 12/1/23
I’m not vegan or vegetarian, so I do eat meat. I don’t view eating meat as some kind of weird flex either. I can’t stand seeing people act like they’re asserting some kind of dominance over animals by eating meat. That being said, I don’t enjoy eating red meat all the time. I know some…
-
Rounding out November in STYLE
It’s been a rough week in our house. Thanksgiving Day was a marvelous feast thanks to my wife’s amazing cooking. We relaxed, watched the parade in the morning, and I was on top of the clean up all afternoon. We were ahead and everything went really well. Then Friday happened…My wife and Girl set out…
-
Household Labor
I started watching this documentary about the division of household labor and how men tend to overestimate their contribution while women underestimate how much they do. It pissed me off for a ton of reasons, but mostly because I’ve seen it exactly as described as a child and as an adult. I’ve lived it from…
-
Daily Prompt 11/21/23
This is a pretty funny question to me because we have some serious picky eaters here and there’s so much that we all don’t eat. Usually there’s something everyone but one person likes. It’s so aggravating to find meals that everyone will actually eat. But here’s three meals, probably the only three meals, that everyone…