Why Life is Great!

Dear Daughter Yeah, it’s going to be a tough week, but you know what? The daughter I know will just face it with a great attitude. She will attack what needs to be done, do her best, and whatever the results – forget about it! You’re just too cool to care! Hang in there kiddo, […]

Dear Daughter Naps can make life great! Don’t beat your self up for napping Sunday and refreshing your batteries for school work. You have always been a good napper, really able to sleep just about anywhere; on a desk alone or a table with friends. Some people even nap in recliners with other family members […]

Life is great because your feet have moisture sensors which enable you to neglect household maintenance tasks. This morning somewhere around 2 AM I woke up with a mighty thirst and stumbled over to the kitchen to fill up a mug with nice cold water from the refrigerator. Now mind you, I was still sleepy […]

Needless to say kids, your dad is a classy guy – that’s why I went to the opera last night to see La Traviata.  Like most operas, sad story, some death, lots of singing and a poor selection of snacks.  Before the opera started I thought the right food pairing for La Traviata would be […]

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 […]