After leaving my Mother in Crescent City I drove 260 miles south to visit with my oldest brother; Dan. This is the first time I have seen Dan in over a year and thanks to his doctor’s and care-staff, he is looking much better – with more hair, less weight,...
Tim turned 15 in May. He promptly began and completed a 40-hour online course which allowed him to get his driver’s permit early. This past Monday he and I spent a few hours at DMV where he passed his written test, got his photo taken, and is now an official...
Leaping into the air after breaking a glass bowl in the kitchen is not a good thing. When you come back down, you tend to land in the same area as all the broken glass! Tim found this out the hard way last night. We spent the night in the...
It was 5479 days ago and Imelda and I had just finished our final child birth class that very evening. It was her final day at work that day, having just begun her 3-week maternity leave. We had just completed a late evening walk through the mall and even ate lemon...
Tim, along with his 8th grade orchestra from Westview Middle School, played the National Anthem last night at the Colorado Rockies vs SF Giants (ironic eh?) baseball game last night at Coor’s Stadium in Denver. We all went (at least for a few innings) and enjoyed the sights, sounds, and...
December of 2011, I talked about how I been working on running a mile reliably again… just like when I was a teen. By February I was doing 2 miles and very pleased to do that. Since then I have continued to regularly run 2 miles and more during my...
Tim was playing with friends at school when one landed on his arm. Tim said he “heard a pop” so we were off for an X-ray. Yep, he has a “compression fracture”. The analogy from the doctor was that a compression break is much like crushing a styrofoam cup and...
A few months back I began ‘running’ 1 mile (using the elliptical machine) each day at the gym. Over a period of time I widdled my 1-mile times down to 6.5 minutes and then settled on 7-minute miles from there. During my drive out to California in Jan, I did...
During out last hike together, Conor and I were discussing training ourselves for a little trail-running to supplement our hiking. With that, I have added a 1-mile run as part of my daily workout routine. My challenge here is that I have only just recently ran my first mile since...
