This week I was thinking about Introverts and Extroverts. This came about because we hosted some family I hadn’t met before and my wife who knows me well by now made a point of thanking me for making time for the family visiting. I initially simply responded with “Of course!” Read more…
Parenthood is an amazing thing. You start off with this squalling ball of poop and crankiness, forced from a place of peace and comfort in to a world that is noisy and bright and smelly and foreign. And, if you are very, very lucky, you will take part in helping Read more…
I’ve been fortunate in many regards and aspect of my life. I’ve been generally healthy and often happy. I get to work in a field I enjoy, largely with people that are good people to know and work with. I have and have had wonderful relationships that I enjoy and Read more…
Summer camp is one of those things that, if you’ve done it, you probably have great memories, perhaps even friends you made that you are still in contact with or maybe some token you hung on to that you made during craft time that evokes memories of your time at Read more…
Here’s a thing I didn’t know: Father’s Day was first celebrated in 1910 in my hometown of Spokane, Washington! Of course, it followed the inauguration of Mother’s Day back in 1908, but I can’t help thinking that’s the right order. Turns out a young lady named Sonora Smart Dodd heard Read more…
In a little less than a week my daughter will be graduating from the University of Oregon and I will be in the crowd snapping pictures and screaming and clapping for her when her name is called. It’s going to be a wonderful day for me personally and for me Read more…
I was born in the Northwest and live there to this day. I like it here and have said before that it’s a great place to live and raise a family. I suppose I could have lived other places and I have lived other places briefly, but I keep coming Read more…
Today is Memorial Day in the United States. When I was growing up it was never very clear what the purpose of the day was. I don’t know if we didn’t talk about it in school or we did and it didn’t stick. Regardless, when I was growing up it Read more…
When I was a freshman in college, my first computer game was published. Coincidentally, when I was a freshman in college, my last computer game was published. Which is, in other words, to say that when I was a freshman in college, the ONE time a computer game I had Read more…
Here is my graduation speech, from one decidedly not-famous speaker to my decidedly wonderful soon-to-be graduate. Congratulations, Graduate. You’ve accomplished one of your life goals and now you have the wonderful and enviable opportunity to ask yourself the question: What comes next? Recently you told me that for the last Read more…