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...
Today was dedicated solely to getting all the California families together for a BBQ while I was in the state. My nephews and nieces came out for some swimming and food and I got to hang with my two brothers for the first time since Joel’s death. Mom and I...
It is an odd feeling; my child graduates from playing with toys to wanting to start playing simulated warfare. On the weekend of Tim’s 13th birthday, he and his school-mate went to play paintball, and I went to be supportive and take a few snapshots.
