Dear Daughter Believe it or not, your father was channel surfing the other night instead of just staying on one channel, like I always do. Desperate for entertainment since Netflix failed me once more, I started flying past the different sports channels and it occurred to me that there is no ideal body. I know […]

Dear Daughter [attempt #2 – YouTube link failed before – sorry!] Life is Great because you have something better than a monkey brain, unlike your father. I love this experiment they did with the monkeys in the YouTube video https://youtu.be/meiU6TxysCg (it’s only 2 minutes), but it does describe something primordial in all of us that I […]

Dear Daughter Halloween is almost upon us and I suspect that your love for spiders has not changed at all? Thank goodness that all your favorite foods are not spider shaped! I mean really? Could you actually eat those cookies with those chocolaty long legs and tasty candy eyes looking at you?  Of course not! […]

Dear Daughter Sometimes in the early morning hours, this is what parking lots look like, even the lamp posts go home for the night.  You can just slide in and out of parking spots carefree. Heck park crooked, who really cares, it’s really just one huge parking spot at that point. This is one of […]

Dear Daughter Obviously happiness makes Life Great, but sometimes I think we take for granted that we can experience happiness. How strange and unbearable would life be if there was no happiness? If we somehow we lacked the ability to feel joy, if all we could look forward to was the sensation of a full […]

Dear Daughter I know that you can be a bit of a perfectionist at times, but as our old and wise philosopher friend Jake likes to say , “Good Enough!” And Life is Great quite often with the ‘good enough’ concept, seeking perfection often just makes life unbearable. However, his other saying, “I almost did […]

Dear Daughter & Son Sunscreen makes life great because it not only makes you look cool, but it also protects your skin! Although I’ve heard that there are those out there that over apply it… as if that’s even possible. That guy next to you probably doesn’t have enough on his face yet. Anyway, keep […]

Dear Daughter I can’t believe I’m writing this, but I guess Life is Great because basketball season starts tomorrow.  As you know I don’t watch or care for basketball ever since you retired out of the sport, but out of nowhere your mother became a Warriors fan last year and now she is very excited […]

Dear Daughter This post will be a Life is Great post if you really enjoy driving a Lego car? They are unique and no one really ever sees them on the road, so it could be really cool! I hope you do like a Lego mobile because that might be what you aspire to drive […]

Dear Daughter I do believe that today is another big test day – good luck!!! To stay positive remember Watsonville!!! Lesson there is that sometimes life can get you down, bad things and rude people just happen – even if you don’t deserve it! But life is great because often a few simple acts of human […]

Dear Daughter Halloween is around the corner and I know how fond you are of spiders – so it’s a spider theme today! What if spiders were big and smart? Then maybe one day your boss would be a giant grumpy spider! Imagine that – working for a scary spider – Yikes! Maybe you’d have […]

Dear Daughter Congrats on the last test – Yeah!!!! I know that you still have a tough week ahead of you, but today Life is Great because we are safe and should be grateful for the people out there fighting to keep us that way. Large parts of California are currently on fire, our fellow […]

Dear Daughter Life is great because I believe that human beings are one of the few species that have the capacity to control how they perceive reality. We all see the same thing through our eyes, but we can impact how our brains process that information and come up with what it means.  Sometimes we […]

Dear Daughter: You know, I was actually young once and we use to have to boil water on the stove for our Ramen, the ones with little dried cubes of dinosaur meat in it . And by stove, I really mean over a camp fire in a cave. Anyway, it would take several minutes to […]

Dear Daughter I think Life is Great because science just proved what every dog owner always knew – finally a good use for science! A study found that when two humans that love one another stare into each other’s eyes, they release elevated amounts of a brain chemical called oxytocin.  The interesting thing was that […]

Dear Daughter I wasn’t going to comment on the Las Vegas tragedy, but a report yesterday about a father sitting at his daughter’s hospital bedside in Las Vegas while she recovers from a gunshot wound just hit me hard. Selfishly my first thought was that life was great because that was not my daughter! She […]

Dear Daughter Everyone has to try using a jackhammer in their lifetime, at least once! Even you! It’s a miracle as it slices through concrete like butter! Yes, that hard stuff that has cracked your iPhone face many times or you tripped over it and fell on its unrelenting and unforgiving surface. Now you can break […]

Dear Daughter Thank God that some people out there are nuts enough to do the craziest stuff. They show us what is truly possible if you are willing to be fearless and committed to be the best at something.  Fortunately not everything needs to be dangerous, I can sit for hours in front of a […]