I proposed to Sara in a fumbling, mumbling, bumbling manner as the clock ticked over to midnight on New Years Eve in 2001. I had plans of proposing while we celebrated the new year with a group of friends, but a snowstorm put a damper on going outside, much less meeting up with people from [...]

Sara and I are in Bismarck, North Dakota for our good friend Kelly’s wedding. Weddings are funny things. I’ve been involved in only three in the past ten years, one of them my own, and by far, this is the most relaxed and laid back. Kelly and his lovely wife-to-be, Annette, have taken a relatively [...]

I don’t write about my family all that often, because they specifically asked me not to and the court order they gave me looks to be pretty solid, but I’m making an exception just this one time. I hope you’ll forgive this momentary detour into reality-based matters. Rest assured, I’m sure I’ll find a funny picture of a squirrel to write about in the very near future.