• My Year of Concerts™: Bruce Springsteen

    My Year of Concerts™ continued Saturday night in PDX with a bucket list item: ✅See Bruce Springsteen live Can confirm that he’s every bit the concert legend that everyone says. My God, where does he get the energy at 73?? I’m decades younger and was exhausted after an hour. He was just getting started at …

    February 26, 2023
  • My Year of Concerts™: Eagles

    Almost dying last year definitely sucked, but every dark cloud has a silver lining. One of the silver linings the accident gave me is clarity. It helped me realize there’s a lot of stuff I want to do, see, hear, taste, feel, and experience before I die. And now is the time to lock in …

    February 20, 2023
  • A New Twist to My Habit of Dying in Dreams

    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
  • And for these reasons, Shark Tank Store, I’m out

    Cari and I both own Yellowstone clothing and a Yellowstone blanket. We both own Axe Capital vests (from Billions). I have a Ted Lasso t-shirt and mask. We’re both very happy to buy and wear clothing from our favorite TV shows. So I was pretty damn disappointed to visit the official ABC/Shark Tank online store. …

    November 26, 2022
  • A Near-Death Moment … A Miracle Month

    There’s a camera shot you’ll see in most movies or TV shows that have a drowning scene: The camera is in the water, pointed up toward the sky above. You see the drowning person’s POV as they presumably look toward the air that they need to survive. It might be a few inches away or …

    October 22, 2022
  • Goodbye, Paper Towels

    We did a little thing here at Casa McGee that I think and hope is both good for our wallet and good for the environment. For years, we’ve gone through paper towels at an alarming rate. We’ve used paper towels for pretty much anything and everything. We’ve used them to clean up spills, of course. …

    July 24, 2022