My wife and I try to give back when and where we can although we can always do better. One of the ways we do this is by coaching AAU volleyball in Clarion. Tricia and I have coached AAU volleyball teams for many years. It started when our oldest was...
We had a dance competition this past weekend. It is so interesting to see how much we have adapted to the pandemic and how it has challenged us to be innovative in how we do things. In the past, dance competitions were several days long with 25 plus studios all...
Mid February for me is the worst time of the year. It’s funky in a bad way. I wrote last week* about my concerns of restarting bad habits in vulnerable times. My bad habit is and was eating in times of boredom, stress, and angst. For me, weight and the...
Valentine’s Day is less than a week away. Do you have a plan to celebrate with someone special? I thought it would be fun to look at a few facts about Valentine’s Day. Did you know… Every year, more than 36 million heart shaped boxes of candy are sold across...
There was this movie years ago called Pleasantville. The basis of this movie was as people became aware and conscious, color was added to their black and white existence. A year ago I feel we were - as everyone was - thrust into a black and white world. The color...
Well, we lost one of the baby hedgehogs last week. It had stopped growing and had some kind of growth on its face which upon research is pretty common as they are prone to tumors in their mouth and throat. Andrew was heartbroken, but the other hedgehog seems to be...
My friend Darrel from Sioux City - great guy, we were in the same grade in school - sang a song about old friends* and posted it on his Facebook site. My class had about 330 students and there are so many diverse and angry posts on all sides of...
~PAUSE~ This morning while I was getting ready I looked down and noticed that a diamond was missing from my wedding ring….YIKES!! Now this is not something you would like to have happen any morning, or time of day for that matter… to have a diamond missing. But for some...
One of my goals for 2021 is to try things and do things that I once thought “nope”. I rode my bike a couple of times in this past month - once it was really cold and then this week when it wasn’t. My perspective from the first time was...
Maleigha decided to break out of her comfort zone and cut her hair this past week. I have loved her hair long, but ultimately it is her decision and she went back and forth on how much to cut. As she was sitting in the chair she shared that she...
