Where did this year go?  I can’t believe that school is almost out for the summer.  I’m sort of looking forward to when Michelle starts school but then again, I’m not.  That means my baby girl is growing up and she’s already growing up faster than I like.  Oh well, she can’t stay a baby [...]

My grandmother called me all upset because my Grandpa Roger had passed away in his sleep on their couch this morning.  He was a Viet Nam veteran of the Marine Corps and often slept on the couch because of the nightmares he still had from being there in the beginning of that awful war. Grandpa [...]

I am so lucky to still have my job.  They laid off one of us at the Verizon store and that only leaves five of us so we are having to take turns working alone during the slow hours which is the mornings through the week.  We usually have at least three of us on [...]

I just finished reading a story about a young couple in New Zealand. It seems they have had a tough time the last few years. Well as the story goes: A “nagging” wife who pushed her husband to buy a lottery ticket helped scoop the $4.2 million ($7.7 million New Zealand dollar) first prize — [...]

A couple of my friends are really into shooting paintball. They have invited me to come along several times but I never seemed to have the time until this weekend. I knew absolutely nothing about what kind of paintball gun was a good one much less which one was the best. Boy did I learn [...]