Well $hit... I received a call earlier in the week from Phaedra's mom informing me that two girls from school had tested positive on the...

Traditions as far as families go give us a sense of connection to the past. My family is filled with them but not all are worth writing...

Sadly the transmission in our trusty minivan shot craps and has been sitting in our driveway for a couple of months now idle. We have a...

In the fall of 2018 I heard about this new place called the Whiskers Cat Café where you could get a coffee from a barista and play with...

Reason, Season, or Lifetime. I'm sure you've heard that before as it pertains to how folks can make brief appearances in our lives or...

Throughout our lives we encounter so many people that shape us. Some have minor roles only appearing for a brief moment and others last a...

Immigration is a topic that could fill volumes and is far too deep a subject for me to purport to be an expert on. I do have a tiny bit...

Along with the occasional gigs that came with having a family business I was tasked with riding along with my father on his routes...

I have been geocaching for about 12 years now and in my early days I made a lot of great friends. Some have moved away, stopped caching...

In my youth I watched a lot of PBS including Reading Rainbow, Nature and Nova. I would see their occasional calls for support through...

I grew up in a household that was pretty comfortable with drinking. I remember a beer in my dad’s hand along with many of my earliest...

The oldest active geocache in the world is out I-70 in a rural part of Kansas. The "town" and cache are both named Mingo (GC37) and are...

Nine years ago today my family was finally complete. It was sunny and in the low 80s that weekend without a cloud in the sky. In the...

PLEASE NOTE: There are graphic details in this post and it is not recommended for children or the easily disturbed. In 2000 I was working...

While not exactly an original name (or limited to this part of the county) the idea of a "Rockfest" event likely conjures up images of...

A few years ago I made a late night run to pick up some domestic living supplies and in an isolated isle in the back corner of a Big Box...

The first time I got drunk believe it or not was when I was just 9 years old. I was on a vacation with my dad and step mom in Laguna...

My father loved Western, War, Action and Sci-Fi movies and among his favorite directors was John Carpenter. He directed notables like...

In 2015 I started at ScriptPro working on the help desk. Coming off of the layoffs at Worldspan I had a little trepidation with this new...

Geocaching offers a wide array of ways to engage with the game most of which involve you signing your name as proof of a visit. Two...