Call Me a Liar

Call Me a Liar

The boys were already downstairs making noise before I even washed the pillow creases off my face. Noise that just so happened to be music to my ears… Floating up from the kitchen was the melodious notes of the dishwasher being emptied and the dishes being put away by...
Magic In The Starting

Magic In The Starting

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. — Goethe It didn’t matter that I had sealed the seams.  Or that we had a tub floor.  Or that I had put a tarp over the site.  Water was everywhere. The...

I’m No Clown

Juggling is not easy. Once you get the hang of it, you’re juggling bowling pins easily from hand to hand and you think, “Hey I could even add a couple more things to this mix! I got this!”  But it turns out that the ‘things’ that got added were a chainsaw and a...
No No No

No No No

What is essential is invisible to the eye. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince I have a confession to make:  I’m a huge James Bond fan.  I have loved them all in all of their incarnations and inanity, from Connery to Craig. Dr. No was the...
Off The Tracks

Off The Tracks

This is the end of the line for most folks. This is where the cart goes off the track. Despite the most heartfelt resolutions, despite whatever the best intentions might have been, most folks give up on their New Year’s promises to themselves… right...