Saturday the BoyChild turned eight. Eight.Years.Old. I am still trying to wrap my mind around that. I’m not sure how, or when we went from this cute, sweet, chubby faced baby: To this Skinny ManChild.  He is handsome or good looking now, instead of cute.  I see in him the man he will become.  The [...]

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This weekend is the BoyChild’s 8th Birthday.  Frankly I’m having a tough time wrapping my mind around that.  Eight.  Years.  Old. Anyway. We’re taking him to Six Flags over Texas for his birthday.  We drove down tonight.  I checked into the hotel.  I Walked back to my car.  My phone sent me a message.  My [...]

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When companies, that have me under a barrel, ask as if I had a choice, “is that o.k. with you?” I have had the unfortunate experience of returning two relatively (at least for me) high ticket items for service to the manufacturer. Both of these items have been less than three months old.  I’ve called [...]

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Last weekend we went to the Needlearts Market in Columbus, Ohio. A new business opportunity has presented itself to us which will involve Needlearts Markets and never having been to one, we thought we should go see one before going as a participant. We took the BoyChild with us.  We flew from here to Baltimore [...]

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