Something terrible happened. Within moments, you’ve got a handful of your closest sharing a bottle of something and your favorite tunes fill the space between. You are the priority. You are the reason they are all here. Laughing, smiling, reminiscing. You are the reason they are singing along to Rocket Man, messing up the words. [...]
Continue Reading →While consolidating emails from the past (circa 2006), I came across a notification from one of my early blogs. I read through it, and while I can remember every thing I reference, I can’t remember everyone. I honestly can’t remember who “she” is. From a post written on February 20, 2006, originally titled “All In [...]
Continue Reading →The emotions people experience after touchdown and prior to takeoff are not documentable. Family, friends and significant others have various ways of materializing the standard hello/goodbye into something much more tangible than the familiar two-syllable exchange. Inbound, I notice smiles, laughter, high-fives, handshakes, and running (sometimes) combined with an aerial hug and kiss. For variety, [...]
Continue Reading →I woke up on last year’s first feeling refreshed, because I won the fight I was in the night before [with a bottle of NyQuil]. My last [KC] New Year’s was spent with some of my closest friends, and sixteen days later I put 735 miles in between myself and most of those individuals. We [...]
Continue Reading →I love Sunday’s, but the day after is usually not on my list of favorites. You know going in [to the weekend] that Monday is going to suck. Some Mondays are a little less painful than others. Usually due to the kind conversations some Sunday evenings can bring. When you’ve completed the weekend’s work and [...]
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