Wellbeing

Come here often?

This is not how I envisioned greeting St. Patty’s Day in 2004… up way past my bed time with a serious case of insomnia. Well, while I’m up, what’s new in John’s world? There was another triumphant return to court. Why do I insist on referring to my court days as “triumphant?” To be honest, I haven’t quite figured that one out either. There’s my…
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Family and Friends

Fifteen minutes.

One exciting thing has happened in the last day or so… Cheryl saw her cousin on T.V. There is a “reality” show on FOX called “Playing it Straight”, and her cousin is part of a group men trying to win the affection of an unsuspecting damsel. Normally I am not a big fan of “reality” T.V. (remind me again what exactly is real about it?), but I must admit to a…
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Family and Friends

What do I see?

I look at Cheryl and I see my love, my wife, my dearest. I look at my child and I see me, only a lot more willful; and a whole lot more outspoken. I look at my wife and I sometimes see a rock. At other times I see a feather. I look at my daughter and I sometimes see the spawn of satan. At other times I see the sweetest person on Earth. I look at myself and I see someone I would have envied in…
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