We have family in Las Vegas, Lake Chelan-Washington, and on the Big Island of Hawaii and we try to visit all of them as often as possible. We also try to take vacations on our own every now and again. The plan that we have tried to work with over the last several years is that [...]
A couple of years back, Amy and I went white water rafting on the south fork of the American River:
I’ve never really been much of an adrenaline junky…I didn’t like roller coasters when I was a kid or wanted to race motocross. I never wanted to wrestle a crocodile or hang glide.
However, I got an [...]
We just got back from seeing my Grandparents in Oklahoma, barely getting out of town before tornadoes touched down just north of their house. My grandfather is the only surviving blood relative I have on my Father’s side of the family and I hadn’t seen them in almost 18 years before the weekend in Yukon, Oklahoma. [...]
My friend, John, lost his father recently. Bud James was 70 years old and in excellent health, so it came as a complete shock to John. I attended the funeral in Bakersfield last weekend and you could see that Mr. James had touched a lot of people’s lives. I was glad that I was able [...]
Amy and I had to go back out to Anthem Highlands last week for our Pre-Construction Meeting and Design Meeting. They are two of the required steps that Pulte has in building a house. All I can say is that it’s a good thing that the Design Meeting was productive because if we had flown all [...]
Looking ahead has always been my greatest strength as well as my most tragic weakness. Even after we had moved into our current home – a beautiful home that I certainly never thought I would have….I was already looking ahead to what was next. I was already doing the calculations about what kind of equity we [...]