Why Life is Great!

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 […]

Dear Daughter What a great country we live in – there is no law on the books saying you can’t wear as many sock layers as you desire.  I believe that it’s outlawed in other countries, but the US Bill of Rights I’m confident has the “right to wear socks” somewhere in there.  It’s plural, […]

Second word – “Vacation” Need I say more?    

Dear Daughter You should be very glad worms are small – what if they were as big as snakes? You may not remember this because it happened about 15 years ago, but I was gardening  and you were helping me  when I found a worm and you freaked out.  Then I gave the worm to […]

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