B

Great goal for a lifetime: B-Complex. Not complicated. Not complaining. Not cantankerous. Not critical. Complex. B it. It’s energizing.

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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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Hello, it’s Mr. Nasty

I’m home sick today. Not fun, to say the least. You wake up, stumble around wondering how to go about your day, and then it happens. You hit your knees. Bowing, yes, but not in prayer. Offering sacrifices to the porcelain throne is more like it. Hours of sleep, sweating, and bad hair. The protein [...]

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An engineer, I am not…

Proverbs 22:6-7 Direct your children onto the right path,       and when they are older, they will not leave it. Just as the rich rule the poor,       so the borrower is servant to the lender. That works for math, among other things… I was lost in the middle of “the math” with my son the other [...]

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Everybody makes mistakes…

Failure to move to non adjacent lane for an emergency vehicle: that was my crime.    The layman’s term for it is sometimes referred to as “failure to yield“. In the immortal words of Hannah Montana, aka Miley Cyrus: Everybody makes mistakes Everybody has those days Everybody knows what, what I’m talkin ’bout Everybody gets that [...]

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We are here to pump (clap) you up!

Hanz und Franz? No. Ralph and Gladys. “Ma and Pa”, to some. It was 1988, in West Germany. Yes, Germany was still divided into two countries, and Arnold had yet to ever consider politics. Even then, he still made for great comedic banter. Saturday Night Live made sport for years of men with “powerful muscles”, [...]

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Kid free weekend: Opening Pandora’s box

  A good friend and newly minted father of an adorable daughter posted the following on Facebook Friday evening: “Left the kid at home tonight with her grandparents and went on a one hour date. It’s funny how it only took two weeks to make something we’ve been doing for over 12 years seem really [...]

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A tale of two doughboys…

Caveat emptor: Let the reader beware.   A random walk lies ahead.  I was looking through a recent download of print pictures, turned digital, that my niece had prepared for our family, and I was taken by the resemblance of the two doughboys pictured here on the right and the left.     These younger Bingham men, each of about [...]

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Correcting Our Shadowy View of Success

The following blogpost is by John Maxwell (OnLeadership.com).    I likely could not say anything to improve upon these ideas.    I am, however, very moved by the points in “Fallacy #2″.      On my Facebook page, I have the tag “halfway there, livin’ on a prayer“.    Thank you, Bon Jovi, for that deep thought.    But here’s the [...]

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Critical Illness and a Gentle Giant

  A friend and co-worker travelled with me to Tulsa earlier this week to pay a short but meaningful visit to a dear mentor and friend, Lyle Harms, and his dear wife Mary. This good man is facing a daunting battle with cancer, and the battle is taking its toll.    Not life with a chronic illness, but [...]

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