A few days back I was chatting with some girlfriends and the subject of having things explode came up. The front runner for greatest disaster was forgetting to pierce potatoes and having them explode, this was the front runner until I shared my story. My girls were still fairly young, maybe five and seven, when…
I find I am best about exercise if I set myself up with a challenge. Unfortunately, I am realizing repeating a challenge doesn’t do it for me. Back in the days, I was marathoning, I dreamed of running a marathon in every state. With ten marathons I had successfully done: The Marine Corps Marathon in…
Nearly, twenty years ago I was persuaded to walk a half marathon. Training for it, was great motivation to exercise. The energy the day of the race was amazing! I was hooked and decided I needed to up my game to running. The first day I went out to run I was totally pumped. I…
I have never been a dog person. In fact, as a child, I was deathly afraid of dogs. My grandma had a dog, Rusty, that I would quiver and hide behind a parent until he was locked away. The story is a cat got in my playpen as an infant, and more likely it was…
The shack was built by my grandpa, lovingly known by all as Pa, early in the 1920s. He collected driftwood to build the original structure. The place had no running water and no electricity but to me it was heaven on earth. It’s on a small marsh island and the only way to get there…
Growing up my dad had started with a couple of tropical fish tanks. This grew into his become a full-fledge breeder. At his peak, he had over one hundred tanks. A task we could do to earn some spending money was to help clean the filters. At that time filter were packed with fiberglass and…