Seek The Substantial

It is nearly the new year and like every new year, resolutions are what we do at the start of the year in what seems like a jump start at improvement for the year. Nautilus’ Alice Fleerackers has a fantastic article about the idea of setting the right kind of…

Why am I starting this and why am I doing this now? Those are both good questions and I don’t know that I have a clear answer other than I’ve had a scratch I’ve wanted to itch for a while. I don’t have any expectations about what this will become,…

I wrote this post in Tumblr and then came to the realization that Tumblr absolutely sucks in terms of uploading pictures and posting from my phone. Ideally, I’d like to use Tumblr because I like the style a bit better but one of the reasons I wanted to do this…

About a week ago we received terrific news in that Y is now officially our child.  It’s been a long journey, since April of 2013 that we first started this process.  Y is officially our child according to the Democratic Republic of Congo. He has our last name. That’s just…

We had an incredibly busy November, again thanks to my wonderful wife, we actually do things rather than just sit around and wait for things to happen. Up first was that we went to a Dallas Stars game. Sweet Sweet was a teacher of the year at KISD and as…

One of the things that Sweet sweet does on an annual basis is that she makes sure that we take family photos, professionally done. Every year I think to myself that I’m incredibly lucky to be blessed with such a beautiful wife and a beautiful child.

There’s a piece of property across the road that one of my client’s own and I asked him if I could hike his property.  It is over 300 acres and I thought it would be really cool to do.  I’ve often thought that it stinks not being able to hike…