Posts from ‘August, 2009’

We leave for Galveston/Bolivar in 3 days. This time with Celeste along too. Temperatures are supposed to top out at 90F with 76F dew points. So, hot and humid as expected. My biggest concern is sun exposure for C and trying to find stuff to do other than swim on a peninsula that has practically [...]

…. I did it.
So, last Sunday I jumped out of a plane. And I haven't written anything here since then. Unless you follow me elsewhere, you might be wondering if I died. I guess sort of, in a way, I did die. Part of me anyway. One of those parts that really wasn't doing me [...]

(I recently wrote these words to a friend going through some hard times in her marriage. I cried when I wrote them. I'm crying now rereading them. I figure they are worth sharing.)
Marriage is hard. Really hard. And children make it harder.
But, then again children are hard too.
I think anything worth keeping requires some work. [...]

I came to Starbucks on my lunch break in order to edit photos from my Monday night photo session. But it looks like my photos didn't quite make it over during the backup/sync that ran last night. It's trying to finish up now but, the starbucks network isn't exactly speedy.
So, instead of editing photos you [...]

I always so actively share the bad, the negative, and the difficult aspects of my life, that I probably leave the impression that there is no goodness or happiness to be found here. This could not be farther from the truth.
I don't think I've ever had a perfectly good or a perfectly bad anything. There's [...]

My parents and my sister came over to my place today. My sister came in order to do a favor for my neighbor. When I told my parents she was coming, they decided to come too at the last minute.
It was nice to have people over. I realized that it's been quite a while since [...]

Doing Less and Sleeping More
From the outside, most people would say that I do A LOT. But from my perspective, it seems like I'm doing less and less with each passing day. The time I spend at home, especially on nights without C, is almost completely wasted. When C is here, I have a lot [...]

A month or so ago I realized that a lot of stuff was putting me under stress that I just didn't need. I realized that as much as I wanted that stuff, when served with that much stress it just wasn't worth it. I'm talking about a mix of small silly things and much larger [...]

1) As a friend pointed out today, life is a journey, not a destination. The potholes along the way are unimportant, and where we end up when we finally stop matters the least of all. What does matter is how we get there, and what we learn along the way. There's a quotation supposedly in [...]

Do you ever consider that you might have shown much of your soft underbelly?
Do you get to this point where you wonder if you've made yourself so vulnerable that you'll only be taken advantage of and never again respected?
Do you ever start to think that maybe you should have just kept it to yourself and, [...]