http://www.digital-place.com/blog musings, mutterings, and meanderings... Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:43:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This morning I decided to get out of the house and went to a local bistro for a breakfast suffle and a little sunshine. It is interesting watching how people relate and communicate. In the seating area next to me two ladies were there for a friendly personal ... http://www.digital-place.com/blog/?p=144 It's amazing how little things can start long time traditions. About 10 years ago my wife was ill for several days during the second week of February. On February 14th that year she finally started feeling a little better but still not very good. Cabin fever was setting in ... http://www.digital-place.com/blog/?p=126 The last few days I've been working on some paperwork for our "friends" at the revenue service. It's never fun and, no matter how hard you try, you can't avoid it. Believe me...I've tried. The amazing thing is that once you get it over with you feel so much ... http://www.digital-place.com/blog/?p=115 It's amazing how often we get things reversed. So often in life we find ourselves concentrating so much on the expedient that we forget the important. Life seems to be full of conflicts and pressures that it is easy to overlook the critical issues in life. The constant pounding ... http://www.digital-place.com/blog/?p=110 While sorting through some old paperwork tonight I came across a handmade valentine from my daughter. It was small, on purple paper and covered with red markers and silver glitter. She had drawn a heart around her name. It looks like something she would ... http://www.digital-place.com/blog/?p=107 Well it's official. The dog days of summer have arrived. After 26 years in West Texas I thought I knew something about the heat. I always thought that the "dry heat" versus "damp heat" thing was mostly psychological - but I think I was wrong. I've lived in ... http://www.digital-place.com/blog/?p=101 August 1st always brings a moment for reflection. In 1975, on August 1st, I lost my mother after a short illness. At 17, I was the only remaining child at home and handled things to the best of my ability. It seems strange that this ... http://www.digital-place.com/blog/?p=93 A couple of years after Lisa and I were married I began to get an interest in finding out about my heritage. For some reason that had never been important in our family and, at that time, I didn't even know my grandfather's name. When the thought of ... http://www.digital-place.com/blog/?p=96 July 3rd, 1999. Nathan and I started a journey. We started our walk to Africa. All journeys begin somehow. In these days of daily trans-oceanic travel you'd think we'd start off a little auspicously. We were riding to the airport in Dallas with some friends to leave ... http://www.digital-place.com/blog/?p=92 Writing is relaxing...it is energizing...it is incredibly simple and devastatingly difficult at the same time. I find that if I don't regularly site down and reduce thoughts to paper (or electrons these days) I become creatively constipated and unable to function properly. It spills over into my business, family, and ... http://www.digital-place.com/blog/?p=100