If you haven’t heard about the 2019 Hunks in Heels beauty pageant I was a contestant in, then head over to this post to get a little background on why this post even exists. Short version – I was in a woman-less beauty pageant and for the talent portion decided…
A couple months ago I was approached on Facebook by an event organizer for an upcoming fundraising event called Hunks in Heels, a woman-less beauty pageant hosted by a local women’s group comprised of realtors for the benefit of homeless female veterans in the area. It would be their first…
My last post was about my junior year of high school where I enjoyed a literature class with the Queen of Symbolism. In that post I briefly hinted that while I disliked literature class in general, I have always enjoyed writing creatively. I remember writing in 8th grade a rather…
When I was in high school (pause for mental math to determine just how long ago that was. It’s a long pause. Dang.), we had three diploma tracks: Vocational, College Prep, and Honors. When I was in 9th grade I was in the College Prep track but had recently tested…
A couple weeks ago, my wife was driving home on the interstate while our youngest son played on an iPad mini in the back seat. Windows were down. Radio blasting. Your basic perfect drive home. Then the iPad flew out the window. Then my son screamed. To hear my wife…
The other day I was driving my middle child to school and he asked me to quiz him on pronouns just in case he had a pop quiz in class. I glanced at the page and saw three headings, Subjective Pronouns, Objective Pronouns, and Possessive Pronouns. Underneath the Subjective heading…
“I have the power!” I exclaimed yesterday afternoon. Readers of a certain age will recognize that catch phrase as coming from the Masters of the Universe cartoon, which would be said by Adam whenever he changed into He-Man. Ok, so I didn’t turn into He-Man (darn it), but my house certainly…
Collective Soul – Dosage My previous album review from my favorite albums post was a review of Collective Soul’s Blender. The album they released just before that one was Dosage, an even better one. It was so iconic to the band’s sound that they even had a tour years later…
Collective Soul – Blender This is the first of the album reviews based on my earlier post. There are more Collective Soul albums in this series than any other band, so a good case could be made that their my favorite band. I’ve seen them in concert more than any…
I like music. I always have. I like listening to it, playing it, and singing it. I can remember being a toddler in our first house’s den listening to music on my dad’s stereo. My dad liked it loud and I followed suit. Well, as much as I could… Side story…
