so here i was at the end of an amazing summer at Ridge Haven. what was i to do? all the other counselors had returned home and/or to school, but i didnt want to go back to chattanooga just yet....
When NASA was preparing for the Apollo project, it took the astronauts to a Navajo reservation in Arizona for training. One day, a Navajo elder and his son came across the space crew walking among the rocks. The...
Last night, my wife and I were sitting in the living room seriously discussing a Living Will. I said to her, "I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle. If that...
Apparently, hiring prostitutes and purchasing drugs is bad for your financial health. Even more amazing is that someone will probably send them money. I believe in forgiveness, and I believe in second chances, but when someone destroys their own career, I...
This is Fort Greene Park, home of the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument, which commemorates the 11,000 who died while incarcerated in British ships anchored in Wallabout Bay during the Revolutionary War. As their bones eventually came free from their shallow...
We checked out today and decided to hit Charleston, SC and stay in Savannah, GA. The drive from Myrtle Beach to Charleston is down highway 17, a nice rural trek with a bunch of small towns and beach-y places. We...
Day Two
After an evening on the questionable beds....
It's not that they're "bad" beds, just not "good" beds but for what we're paying (yes, cheap bastard me), they're fine. Woke up grabbed my camera and the first spot of caffeine for...
As the nature of this trip, we decided to reverse the flow and go to Myrtle Beach first. Nice trip down I-20, ate lunch at a rest stop but the longest haul was once you got off I-95 and onto...
Well, next week, football season kicks off. I can hardly wait. Lately, I've been repeatedly asking Fuller if he wants to go outside and "play tackle." Usually he says "no", but today, he said "OK, Daddy." Here's a video of him...
I've come to a conclusion recently. We've all heard that babies will nurse for comfort & not just when they're hungry. What this means for us adults is that we were born emotional eaters. I've always beaten myself up for...
Rehema's daycare teacher asked us two weeks ago if we wanted to start potty training her. We said yes, but I was wondering if it will work because I had already bought her a potty and she was not...
From Slate V-The art of speaking, with George W. Bush. Click here to view video of Bush using his best Bushisms. Why did we elect this man President? ...
ALASKA More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska. AMAZON The Amazon Rain Forest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply. The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic...
We checked out today and decided to hit Charleston, SC and stay in Savannah, GA. The drive from Myrtle Beach to Charleston is down highway 17, a nice rural trek with a bunch of small towns and beach-y places. We...
Day Two
After an evening on the questionable beds....
It's not that they're "bad" beds, just not "good" beds but for what we're paying (yes, cheap bastard me), they're fine. Woke up grabbed my camera and the first spot of caffeine for...
As the nature of this trip, we decided to reverse the flow and go to Myrtle Beach first. Nice trip down I-20, ate lunch at a rest stop but the longest haul was once you got off I-95 and onto...
Given the choice, I guess I'd rather have my kids exposed to 300; but God Forbid that choice becomes necessary! "This weekend I heard about the substitute teacher who showed an 8th grade class the "R" rated movie, Brokeback Mountain, but...
Couple of News links and quotes: "Friday, Whitfield County school administrators defended the teacher's decision to show it. [A clip from the movie "300."] ...School officials say the teacher, Brad Barrett, made the right choice**. "We saw nothing in that...
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