My son Ammon, the one on the right, birthday is today.  He is 26 years old, which doesn't make any sense as I am just a tad over 40.  Ammon is a great guy!

Happy Birthday Ammon!!!

Locals schools are closed tomorrow, making the total number of snow days to be three.  Streets are covered with packed ...   more »

Wow!  Major snow here in the islands.  Take a look at these links for photos and coverage.

http://www.sanjuanislander.com/
http://www.sanjuanupdate.com/

To some people that is not a big surprise.  Like yesterday for example.  I met my friends Paul and Brian ...   more »

This past week, plus a couple of days, has been really windy.  Pacific storms blowing through brought the high winds ...   more »

This is a current list of Jack Reacher stories written by Lee Childs, http://www.leechild.com/. Reacher a former Army Military Police travels around the country solving various mysteries. Very entertaining. I would recommend them.   more »

Back in the 1950's Edward Murrow started an essay writing movement called "This I Believe". He fashioned it as a way to hear what people where saying or writing. This movement continues today on National Public Radio (NPR) where 350-500 word essays are read. I haven't actually heard this program because I don't listen to NPR.   more »

Last week I posed a web site for Moleskine Notebooks.  It was www.moleskines.com.

On this site learned of the ...   more »

Last week I wrtoe about my love affair with Moleskine Notebooks, or just Moleskines.  Yesterday I received a call from ...   more »

When I was a young boy in elementary school our P.E. program consisted of going to the gym/lunch room and our P.E. teacher would put a record on a portable player and played this exercised base song "Chicken Fat".  The whole experience was a ball.  I still know some of the words to the song.

Today I was telling Samantha about the song and I received one of those "have you lost your mind" looks, which I receive all to often.  I did a Google search to find the song and redeem myself.  And guess what, I found it.

Here you go.  Enjoy:  http://www.clubcourtyard.com/ChickenFat.html.  Don't forget to turn up the volume!

I have been a “card” carrying Buddhist since 1998.  I went through the process of “taking refuge” from Sakya ...   more »