Dear Daughter Your Dad sucks! I told you I’d call you back last night and I failed miserably. I’d understand if it was you that sprayed painted this on the wall of some random building I found on the internet. Sorry, but my brain as been less then optimal this week.  I hope that my […]

Dear Daughter I know you were born before GPS systems were around, but they really do make life great and way safer. This is specially true for a family that has a 95% chance of going the wrong way when they come to a fork in the road. Statistically speaking that should be impossible, but […]

Dear Daughter Time to psychoanalyze your father. So you probably don’t know that your father loves aquariums? Alright, I know that you’ve had to visit probably too many due to my love of fish and corals. There have been periods in my life that aquariums added to the reasons  for Why Life is Great.  But […]

Dear Daughter Some people call today Black Friday for going out shopping, I call it the Day of Deep Regret [DDR for short]. This is the best and worst kind of regret, the self imposed kind. The kind of tragedy you could have completely avoided, but decided not to.  It seemed so innocent, only one […]

Dear Daughter Your Dad woke in a wonderful Holiday mood today. Let this be a warning to those coming over tomorrow for turkey! Kidding, this post does not apply to anyone coming over to our home, it was just a thought that popped up in my warped brain. So, tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I suppose […]

Dear Daughter Nothing earth shattering today. Yesterday I wrote that Life is Great because the size of TVs and the ease in which you can receive content. Today it’s all about the wide variety of TV content. We have reached a point where whatever weird thing you are into, it’s on TV. Want a show […]

Dear Daughter Here’s a surprise for you – your Dad thinks Life is Great because of BIG TVs and HD digital cable. I was so stoked when we got that beast behind me, which was a puny 60″ and I have of course moved on to an 80″ monster as HD become the standard – […]

Dear Daughter Yesterday I wrote about how sometimes nothing is something. I thought it was a very insightful and straightforward post full of wisdom, but I heard that there are some whiners out there claiming that the post was either just a frantic attempt at a posting by someone lacking a single idea in their […]

Dear Daughter Sometimes Life is Great because you can say that doing absolutely nothing is actually doing something. This allows you to pretend like doing nothing is actually accomplishing something. Like if you had to write a blog post at 3am about something, but you actually wrote about absolutely nothing pretending it’s something. See, you […]

Dear Daughter Yesterday I wrote about being flexible, which is actually harder as you get older; both physically and mentally! Flexibility is a good long-term state of mind, but is typically a reaction to a present emergency. The need to adapt is more long-term and frequently associated with survival; be it economic, societal, or life […]

Dear Daughter This is a boring post, but I think important. I believe for anyone to lead a happy life and not go insane, a person needs to remain flexible and open to new ideas. Sometimes you need a nap and there’s no pillow around! You could choose just not the nap and be tired […]

Dear Daughter It’s a new week and of course new challenges. Perhaps during those times that things seem the most overwhelming, take 3-4 minutes to listen to one of your favorite songs. I’d say listen to my favorite songs, but I know you think my music is not very hip along with my attire, jokes, […]

Dear Daughter Great seeing you this weekend. Funny you should have mentioned loathing thinking about having to possibly parallel park to go meet a friend – I’ve thinking about this for a post. I mean what’s the worst that could happen – apparently according to cartoon science your car could instantaneously flip upside down and catch […]

  Dear Daughter A big reason for Why our Lives are Great is due to our Veterans. It may sound like a cliché, but your father wants you to genuinely pause today, even if it’s just for a minute, and express some gratitude for all the veterans that have served and continue to serve our […]

  Dear Daughter The exams are over for now! I don’t know which way you are feeling this morning, maybe it’s all three memes and a few other emotions too. Sometimes Life is Great because there are no do-overs. Something is done and for better or worse – that’s it, you move on! Otherwise many […]