I received an email today from a guy I have something in common with. He too inherited his ex-wife’s wedding dress. Terry’s ex-wife might have even been trying to send a stronger message than mine. Seemingly she took the dress out of its preservation box and hung it up in the closet of a home [...]
About a month ago the weather ‘experts’ here in Arizona were forecasting a colder and wetter than average winter – exciting for us desert folk. But they recently changed their story and gave us the sad news that Tucson will be warm and dry for the rest of time only adding fuel to my desire [...]
My thoughts about wedding dresses and weddings are well documented. I largely believe expensive wedding dresses are stupid and that lavish weddings don’t make sense for most people. But like most things in life these things can’t be viewed only in black and white and my attention was directed recently to an organization that is [...]
I just got back from an entire week of fishing the Missouri River near Craig, Montana. 6 days floating in a pontoon boat and tossing flies to healthy wild trout with a few buddies did wonders for my soul. I wish there was a way to take a trip like that more than once a [...]
Ashley and I planned our backyard wedding last year in 9 days (no she wasn’t pregnant or marrying me to avoid deportation) and had our hands full. When my cousin Dominic and his wife Kristel generously offered to serve ice cream from their awesome electric Model T ice cream truck we were thrilled. Not only [...]
The great MC Hammer turned 50 yesterday. I’m a day late in getting this up. I put together a little video a while back wearing some Hammer pants that I made from my ex-wife’s wedding dress. I’m a very bad dancer. I can’t touch MC Hammer’s moves. //
My life is mostly complete. I remarried last June. My book came out last fall. I’m very busy selling boxes these days. I just moved into a bigger home with my bigger blended family. At the end of the day when my head hits the pillow and reflect on where I’m at there is really [...]
This weekend almost 500 authors are in Tucson for our Festival of Books. The event is huge. I lucked out and get to present at the event on Saturday the 10th at the UofA bookstore from 1:00-2:00. I will be hanging out after the presentation to sign books. There is a possibility – if I [...]
I received this e-mail this week from my neighborhood association. It is just too good to keep to myself. I essentially live in a retirement community in the Tucson suburbs. 90% of the homes in my neighborhood are owned by retirees with small fancy dogs. Watch out for the guy walking my neighborhood with his [...]
Last year Ashley and I were trying to figure out how we were going to get married. We really just wanted to be married and didn’t want to make a big production of it. Neither of us had the time or the desire to plan a big wedding, but of course there were people near [...]