Today I want to say Happy Mother’s Day to the three mother’s in my life. To Phyllis, my Mother-In-Law, thank you so much for bringing my beautiful wife into this world and being the grandmother to my children. It is always nice […]
So this is the year when I turn forty. Being the end of the next full decade of life, this is supposed to be one of those years that I look back at how little I have accomplished and how little time […]
I really didn’t intend to write a Thanksgiving post. To me those sort of posts seem overly sappy or completely contrived. My goal is to do neither, but I think I may end up more on the side of sappy, so bear […]
This little bobble head was my father’s day present this morning. My family gets me.
Ten years ago my wife gave birth to my little girl. The labor had been long and uncomfortable for my wife and ended in a C-Section ultimately. I was in the operating room holding stroking my wife’s hair and speaking words of […]
I wish I could find a way to express my gratitude for Roy Norman Thompson. He is the father of my wife and the grandfather to my children. I have known Roy for about thirteen years now. I say I know him […]
What seems like a lifetime ago my wife and I spent a cold March weekend at McMenamin’s Edgefield in Troutdale, Oregon. When we woke in the morning there was snow outside. This picture was taken from our open window down on the […]