WARNING: I don’t know if this post is really meant for  anyone other than  myself. It’s really just a long confessional. This really went off the rails! So I lost a friend on Monday. Bruce Robertson passed on April 9, 2018. This was an odd friendship, I can’t say that I really knew Bruce, he […]

Dear Son & Daughter Alright, I’m going to stop playing favorites and add my son to this blog too. The big guy is equally as stressed as his sister as he studies for some graduate programs and begins to contemplate what he’s going to do with his life and is starting to realize that while […]

Dear Daughter Your father must have been kidnapped by gypsies) or something because it’s been forever since I wrote anything in this blog. Sorry if there’s any gypsies reading this, but someone had to take the fall for my lapse. This is obviously not a post about personal responsibility! Without my word of the day […]

Dear Daughter Yes, midterms are here and sh*t happens, things get in the way of studying, people misbehave, you roll over on your head phones and break them, and sometimes it almost seems like the universe is conspiring against you. However, you learned a great lesson a couple weeks ago – it can’t be sh*t sandwiches […]

Dear Daughter Often education is responsible for assisting you with being successful in life, but don’t under estimate good instincts either! Good instincts can make life great and I believe you have good instincts based on the picture above. Look at you, you immediately knew on your first birthday that fire could be bad! I […]

Dear Daughter All right, let’s stay on yesterday’s very sophisticated theme of butt related stories. Soft double quilted American toilet paper makes life great! First let me share with you that when I was staying with my grandparents as a child and we have to go out in the woods to do our business, there […]

Dear Daughter After having spent some time in Minnesota last week, let me tell you that life is great because we live in the SF Bay Area of California. They said that living in California makes you soft and are they right! While I was in Minnesota lots of people were talking about getting up […]

Dear Daughter Don’t Saturday morning’s make life great? The week is behind you, and sure you got all kinds of stuff you need to get done over the weekend, but that’s what Sundays are for! Enjoy your Saturdays! There are many people out there, like your father, who work weekends; although I know that you […]

Dear Daughter As you recently learned lightbulbs make life great, but they are extremely difficult to replace. It is because of this difficulty that people are always asking how many people from a particular country does it take to replace a lightbulb? This is not meant to be an insult, but it reflects the difficulty […]

Dear Daughter Well its that time of year when students must decide which extra class to drop and which one to keep – decisions must be made and regret will likely ensue regarding the road not taken! Sadly, there are not always clear choices in life, often there are equal pros and cons to each […]

Dear Daughter Hopefully your first day of school was wonderful, but not so wonderful that you will want to stay in college forever! I’m torn whether to say that spell check makes Life Great or has dulled my brain? It did fail me yesterday in the title of my post and I really hate the […]

Well not much has been written lately since my daughter has been home for the holidays and we can just talk, so not much reason to post stuff.  However, today is a special day, so let’s add something – Happy New Year! This is more for my huge audience of 3-4 people out there. I […]

So no posts for a little while since we were altogether as a family in Hawaii. Before you get too envious, read on! This was our first time to the Big Island.  Nice trip, but there was a lesson learned here – do NOT simply look at the resort photos of where you’re staying if […]

Dear Daughter I’m still alive and I know finals are on their way, so I hope you are also still amongst the living and not part of the living that envy the dead. Those snooty dead folks all peaceful like and not a  worry in the world! While that may sound good, they don’t get […]

Dear Daughter First, what the heck happened yesterday? No post from me and no one called to ask if I was dead? Well, I’m very much alive, but was so very tired. Much better now, so let’s get on with it! Life is Great because sometimes you can just make a friend – literally put […]

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 […]