The Forty-Five

 This past week I was asked to speak to the Summer Interns. I was a bit of a last minute substitution:  the original speaker (a member of th...

This past weekend I went to visit my former boss who retired earlier this year. The drive was approximately 2 hours North/Northwest of New H...

  ( Source ) There is a place in the far Northwest of California the runs along the coast where at one time, military bunkers were installed...

The whole thing started in late May when I broke a tooth. I am a stress consumer of snacks and - conveniently - at work there is a large con...

This Saturday past, I hit a Personal Record weightlifting. Personal Records (PR) is a measurement tool used in probably every sport.  It is ...

  ( Source ) About a month ago, someone approached me after watching me speak for a bit.   "You shrink in when you speak"  they no...

( Source )  This past Friday at The Allotment, I drove bamboo stakes into the ground. Part of these were to shore up my tomato plants (11 of...

 This past week, with the purchase of a tripod for to use with my Computer In My Pocket for remote iaijutsu class (we do not always have acc...

  I know, another picture of and post about blackberries.  I can imagine what you are thinking:  "TB, have you ever seen a blackberry b...

 There comes a point at which one begins to not care about things. This sort of thinking must be - especially to the young and fired up - so...

  ( Source ) I have found myself in a funk over the past week or so. It is not really fair to say it is "the world"; if anything, ...

Part of a philosophy that my company has - similar to many companies - is the idea of "Work Hard, Play Hard".  The idea behind it ...

 You met my eye in early morning, forlorn on the sidewalk: white paper, scorched paper, lipstick stained filter. A sentinel from a late nigh...

  Last week, as may have been readily apparent from my horribly formatted post yesterday (and for which I do apologize; the bug is apparentl...

  ( Source ) One of the attractive things about a blog is that one shares what information one wants to. For some, that is a daily sort of c...

  ( Source ) I freely admit that I am a silly person. I break into song frequently.  I make puns at work frequently, to the point that peopl...

 Today, as it turns out, is our wedding anniversary.  We are now firmly into the mid-30's. --- Wedding anniversaries are interesting thi...

Patrice Lewis over at Rural Revolution wrote a rather thought provoking article last week entitled " The dying art of writing ". ...

 This past Wednesday night, I was confronted with two very different emotional states. The first was one that was leftover from work, a cont...

 This week I filled out my ballot. When I arrived here in New Home 2.0, I did something I had never done in my life: I registered as "n...