April 7, 2022

It was 7:30 in the morning and the warmed brown leaf covered earth of the Ozark Mountains was colliding with the cool moist early air. Now at the end of April from a distance these […]

March 28, 2022

Simple trick to inspire your children!  Today I traveled with my daughter as she took 12 year old Emma to the home school roller skate event.  It was a lot like watching an old episode […]

March 24, 2022

I was moving a cabinet at my home, when a shelf fell. My heart sank at the sound of the crash.  It was loaded with items my late wife and I had purchased on vacations.  […]

March 23, 2022

Yesterday I took a hike!  Through the Buesik State Park in southern Missouri.  Trying to avoid wading through a cold fast moving stream turned a 4.3 mile hike to 5.5.  iI took us about 3 […]

March 15, 2022

Slip me a slobber, bobber.  That was the way my Dad would ask me for a kiss when I was little. Just as Steve Jobs developed technology that people automatically knew how to work, Dad […]

February 8, 2022

After hiking in the cold with my daughter she offered to make me lunch.  She suggested pizza or a ham sandwich and then with a pause she smiled  “Grilled cheese & tomato soup?” In a […]