Kimberly and I are on staycation! For those of you not hip to the lingo, a staycation is like a vacation, except that you don’t go anywhere. It sounds boring, but it doesn’t have to be. If fact, I am really looking forward to some of the things that we have planned. A nice thing [...]

Sleeping is giving in No matter what the time is Sleeping is giving in So lift those heavy eyelids – Arcade Fire “Rebellion (Lies)” An unwelcome reprieve today gives me a moment to shed some light on what I have been doing lately. I tried to sleep this afternoon, but it was futile. I didn’t [...]

I have had a special request to talk about 40th my birthday party. No, I did not celebrate my birthday drinking Champagne on the Champs-Elysées, pretending that the Bastille Day parades, fireworks, and fighter plane flyovers were for me (although that is a grand idea and I’m thinking of maybe trying for that on my [...]

“You better run for the hills before they burn,  listen to the sound of the world, don’t watch it turn.  I just want to show you what I know and catch you  when the current lets you go.”  Late last year, the company I work for installed a new voice mail system. We were told [...]