I’m using working on WordPress as my excuse to write and learn. I hope to write on subjects important and interesting to me, personal or professional.

  • Why?

    My wife accuses me, rightly so, of asking this question too often. It is one thing, of many, that I do that annoys her. She asks me a question, for example, “can you please get me that bag of flour from the pantry?” My typical retort is “why?” And when I do, and her exasperation…

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  • 29

    For most, the number, twenty-nine, represents a count of something: years, dollars, tweet views, whatever. I too attach a meaning to this number but it is one that I assume is rather unique in this world. Twenty-nine represents the time I almost killed my daughter. Only a couple of months removed from her diagnosis with…

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  • It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Chaos

    Meredith Willson did say it well, in his holiday classic, “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas“: A pair of Hopalong boots and a pistol that shootsIs the wish of Barney and BenDolls that’ll talk and will go for a walkIs the hope of Janice and JenAnd Mom and Dad can hardly wait for…

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