Dreams, Epiphanies, and Deliriums

What do softball, storm damage, and music by U2 have in common? Absolutely nothing, but in my dreams from an hour or so back, mostly everything. You see, I’m fighting a bit of a cold, and when I do that, the rare mixture of late night coughing, congestion, and medicines combined with a faint fever [...]

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The Monster at the End of this Book…

I made a road trip today with a friend. It involved several hundred miles and started very early. Accordingly, there was the requisite stop at a Starbucks along the way for some liquid rejuvenation, AKA caffeine. While in the shop, I secured the free “pick of the week” iTunes card, and there was reacquainted with [...]

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House Blend?

Coffee as an analogy for life? Some would suggest that coffee is life, and I would concur at times. For certain, life often begins each day after a first cup, but today I wish to ponder it before I drink it. As I prepared the first “nectar of life” carafe of the day yesterday, I [...]

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Celebrating my Dad, 2011

Sunday is Father’s Day. It is a day for joy, celebration, and saying thank you. For some, it is a day of remembrances and some sadness, for those who have lost their fathers, especially recently. In celebrating my dad, and remembering with thanks, the following snippets represent grateful memories, and things I want to share [...]

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Rogue agent: Unencumbered from the womb.

I went jogging on the beach this morning. Go ahead: begin humming the tune from “Chariots of Fire” here. I will even insert some bad Irish accent dialogue to go along with it: “whenn A runn, A feell HIS strenth“. And, yes, one man’s slow motion is another man’s full speed. The family was sleeping [...]

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I.W.W.D.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs has his numbered rules (never say you’re sorry, never involve a lawyer, etc). There are a bunch of them. My friend Michael has adopted what he terms N.U.T.: Non-negotiable Unalterable Terms. He currently has identified 1 through 5. While I’m in the “initialization” mood (BNFMK, anyone?), I think I will create my [...]

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Switch!

It’s graduation weekend in Edmond, America, and you know what that means: hitting the reception circuit. So many kids, so many cake/punch/hors doerves opportunities, so little time/so little stomach space. And memories: so many memories. How could they have all grown up so fast? It seems like just yesterday that Baby H graduated; I think [...]

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One Day

I’ve been blogging (“web journaling”) off and on for a couple of years now, and the exercise has been good for me. I find that getting my thoughts out of the cranium and editing them into a sharable form has been mentally liberating. But at that point, the words are no longer just for me. [...]

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“Go Figure”

I recently noticed an app on Facebook called “my top fans”, or “my top Facebook stalkers”, and noticed that my son had been tagged as a top fan of a girl.   Humm. Intrigued, I thought “I wonder who my top followers are?”.    So, maybe against my better judgement, I ran the application, but did not [...]

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VIP. “It just clicked”.

“And then I was smart”. My daughter was sharing a dream with me the other day. Not a wish or hope for the future, mind you, but a literal “while you were sleeping” moment. Sort of an epiphany, if you will. She said she was dreaming about acronyms, and that the explanations for things she [...]

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