Hi! I’m glad you’ve decided to at least check out my latest attempts at scribbling down my thoughts. I am launching this new blog on the cusp of my 55th birthday. 55 years is a long time to be on this blue orb. I’ve seen a lot and learned a lot in that half-century plus. Not all of those sights and learnings have been good but I consider myself blessed to live in the greatest country in the world. The land of opportunity!
Dad shortly before he passed in 2013.
During the crazy year of 2020 and continuing into the thus far equally crazy 2021, I’ve spent countless hours finally going through through photographs left over from Mom & Dad’s house. Unbelievably, it’s been almost 8 years since Dad passed. The time has flown by. I’d always heard it said that you don’t feel old until you lose both of…
I read the "About Me" pages and it seems like most people have a lot better story than me. I'm kinda average really. Just a 50 something dude with a lot of life experience. I grew up in a rural setting, somehow wound up living in a Suburban development and working in a very corporate office every day for the last 30 years. I'm not sure how that happened. I'm an unapologetic hunter and fisherman as well as a birder, naturalist, camper, runner, cyclist, and (maybe formerly) a triathlete. Those athletic things only started a few years ago when I was inspired (read that as horrified) by a picture my wife snapped of me at an archery tournament. I had the biggest belly there.
I love to write as well. I think the biggest disappointment for my Mom was that I did not pursue a career in writing but as a young man I had no idea how one went about earning a living writing. Now I entertain myself by prattling on and on via my blogs about my everyday adventures.
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