(Read time 7 mins)
Picture my surprise then when at 44 years young I got shown the little white stick with the blue line across it. It didn't take me long to register that I was about to become a dad for the very first time. Yep, I was ready! ...Or so I thought. Despite the messy, noisy unpredictability having kids brings, my mind and soul have found an inner peace unlike any other time in my life before it. My excitement and perhaps naive, delusional mind got a rude awakening...
(Read time 7 mins)
From alternate worlds, wild adventures, epic fantasy, sweeping sagas, or lost in other realities and imaginations, there's nothing quite like a good book. A reading revolution swept through school… Those books were read, re-read, bought, swapped, exchanged, read and re-read again and again until they were barely hanging by a thread. I had real life travel adventures of my own but my love for reading never wavered.
(8 minute read)
I was done with women, relationships… love. I'd given love my absolute all over the years. Thanks for the memories, the fun times, the passion, the tears, the heartaches, but I'm out. Adios, ciao, sayonara... goodbye. So imagine my surprise then when… Four hour calls became six, became 10, 12, 16, 20 hour calls. Once or twice we even crossed 24 hours straight. I knew inside that first week that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her.
