E doesn’t like to be talked about online, and doesn’t like to be included in photos posted online, so I’ll keep this short: Today was graduation day at WWU. My youngest child is now a college grad. I could not possibly be more proud. Nor more emotional.
June 15, 2024
What a morning this was. After a long and winding road, my oldest child is now a college graduate!! Cari and I braved unusually hot weather in Ellensburg*, but let’s be real — we wouldn’t have missed this for the world. Sean made some bad choices early in his college career, so this took much …
June 8, 2024
I’ve always wanted to see the northern lights. Friends have traveled to Alaska, Europe, and all over the world to see them. I finally got to see them tonight here in the Tri-Cities…they were visible with the naked eye. Unbelievable.
May 10, 2024
My feet are freezing. It’s 90 degrees outside in August and I’m walking barefoot on our hot back patio, but my feet feel like they’re suffering from frostbite. It’s been this way since my accident last September. Only my feet aren’t really freezing. Every so often, I’ll ask Cari to touch my foot. “Does that …
September 24, 2023
(As in a lemon car, not the fruit!) I’d heard some horror stories over the years about how car manufacturers will fight to the grave to avoid replacing obviously defective cars. One friend told me last year that he had to take the car manufacturer to court, won the case, got a new car, and …
June 5, 2023
For my entire life, I’ve had dreams in which I die. And it’s not unusual for me to have these same dreams repeatedly. As an adult, it usually involves a fall from a great height. There’s one in which I’m driving up a steep hill, and then when I get to the top, the downward …
December 1, 2022