Forward.
Well, I’m back. I’ve been threatening to dust off the keyboard for a while, but I found it hard to sit down and write something snarky while everything I had built, wanted, and counted…
Dad Life
Solidarité: Dallas Pays Tribute To Paris (Photos)
On Friday 13th as Paris was devastated by a terrorist attack, I like the rest of the nation watched closely to the media as the details were released. By the time I left Omni’s…
Forgiveness and Change.
Have you ever considered what it would mean to change? To really change? To look at your life, who you’ve been and who you are, and what you’ve done, and make the decision to…
An Understated Year.
So after saying that I was back and would be doing some writing it occurred to me that once you say that, you actually have to write something. It’s that frickin’ logic thing again….
Flank Steak Recipe From A Childhood Memory
When I was a kid my mom (or me mum) used to make the most amazing flank steak recipe…I carried the memory of it all through my life. A really vivid memory of that…
How This Hot Mess Got Started.
During a recent bout with morbid curiosity, I spent some time with a Life Expectancy Calculator, trading facts about my physical and mental past for…a number. A number which absolutely plays into the category…
How to fight a speeding ticket.
Long overdue for writing a post with actual words rather than just clicking a camera, I know. Not that you care. echo echo echo So recently I beat a speeding ticket. Or as some…
Mash Dogs. Cheesy Mash Dogs. Whatever.
Even though I’ve been eating these since I was a kid, my daughter and I can’t figure out what to call them. They never had a name growing up, but you would think that…
I had a sister named Tara.
She started a life full of promise. She was bright, infectious, funny. And then she started down a couple of bad paths, and they led to a couple more. It soon became clear that…
The hottest girl in a very small school.
I first kissed a girl in 1984. Not the book, the year. True to some Orwellian prophecy however, people watched me do it, and I was confused and terrified the entire time. Now you…