The Top 9 Tips/Observations of a Disney First-Timer

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On Feb. 21, 2016, my family embarked on an earth-shattering, mind-bending, week-long, first-time-ever vacation at the Happiest Place on Earth: Disney World. It is now about a week and a half since we returned, and I'm writing the blog that…

And so that was Christmas…

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It's January 2 and Christmas is officially over. Sigh. It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't such an unceremonious ending. You've got four or five weeks of slowly climbing that first big hill of the rollercoaster — tick, tick, tick…

The Top 8 Reasons why Christmas in the ’70s was Awesome

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It's no surprise that people tend to view the decade of their childhood as the best. As kids, we look at the world with innocence and wonder through formative eyes that are focused mostly on the good things in the world rather than the…

Why nature matters

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It happens as we cruise through our 21st-century life, and it’s nobody’s fault in particular. It happens while we spend eight hours a day in our brick office buildings, five days a week, most of a year;as we're driving our air-conditioned…

The Top 10 truths about winter storms in the South

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We're going on Day 6 of the Great Wintery-Mix Storm of 2015.  Because we're all essentially trapped in our homes, Americans on the lower-right side of the map have all taken to social media to air their witticisms and smart-aleck remarks…

What the movie “Unbroken” meant for me

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My fascination with Louie Zamperini has finally come full circle.  I went to the movie "Unbroken" last night. I'm not going to revisit the details of my personal interaction with the WWII hero here, but the nutshell is that I met and…

The Great Zamperini and me

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If you've followed me for a while, you've probably seen me mention Louis "Louie" Zamperini, the WWII hero and subject of the new movie, "Unbroken," directed by Angelina Jolie. Like millions of other people, I was captivated by Laura Hillenbrand's…

The Top 10 Christmas Shows, period, the end.

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If you're like me, you don't need any help deciding which Christmas shows to watch.  You know what you like and what you don't. So why would you come here to read my "Top 10 Christmas Shows, period, the end"?  Easy.  So you can either…

The Top 10 Things I’m Offended, Shocked, and/or Outraged By, 2.0

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I'm updating this blog a bit in light of the latest explosion of social media outrage. I'll write something entirely new for the next round of outrage, which I'm sure will be coming in, like, five minutes from now. In the United States,…

Is Crossfit a “white people fad”?

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A few days ago, I received this response to my blog, "The Top 12 Reasons Why this 47-Year-Old HATES Crossfit." While it seemed like a strange comment for that particular blog, I thought it was a fair question. Who wants to respond…