To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day…. I think it must be how it ought…
Story of one boy changing my life
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A Christmas Tree Adventure
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love. ~Henry Miller This…
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I will drink life to the lees. ~Alfred Tennyson Today is a beautiful sunny day. I mean gorgeous. It’s a comfortable temperature in the 70s,…
Never say ‘no’ to adventures. Always say ‘yes,’ otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life. ~Ian Fleming On Wednesday, I surprised Kyle with an adventure…
Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything’s possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take…
From February Till Now, A Summary of Kyle
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. ~J.D. Salinger I can’t believe how long it’s been since I released a…
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It’s true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person’s blood even if he doesn’t…
The best teachers impart knowledge through sleight of hand, like a magician. Kate Betts Happy Birthday Dad! January 16, 1951 Just to reiterate, Dad despises…
It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe. ~Anne Brontë Life contains those subtle special moments that…
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox Our country is torn in two, at least that’s what it seems. Although, is it…
Pumpkin Guts, No Thanks
Tis “the witching time of night”, / Orbed is the moon and bright, / And the stars they glisten, glisten, / Seeming with bright eyes…
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Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That’s the given. How you respond to those losses, what…
My life is like tofu—it’s what gets added that makes it interesting. ~Angela Johnson Last Wednesday, I took Kyle and his friend on A Visit…
I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that…
Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I…
What we remember from childhood we remember forever – permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. ~Cynthia Ozick Honestly, I’ve been toying around with this…
Shut your eyes and see. ~James Joyce I’m a little late in telling about our escape room experience two weekends ago, but I believe it’s…
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. ~C.G. Jung I love…
Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories. ~Zadie Smith Yep, we survived the 27th Annual Louise Planinsek Fishing Derby,…
Happy Birthday Ryan!
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately… ~Henry David Thoreau Happy 38th Birthday Ryan! Believe it or not, Ryan would’ve been 38-years…
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