A week or two before Katrina arrived, Bill and I made the leap from online chatting to a phone call. That call is in my mind as if it happened only yesterday. The first time I heard that deep, soft southern drawl made my knees weak.That call lasted 5 hours. 5 hours where we talked non stop. 5 hours that changed my thinking about Bill Moyers. There was more to this guy then shyness and stroke. I had never met anyone I could talk to about anything and they knew what I meant. If such a thing as a electrical...

Between kids & work & home & nice weather & summer fun & BBQ's & family, I've spent less time around the blogs.

Since my last post, I went back to smoking... I will try again for as long as I find something to help me emotionally. I found it difficult to dealing with stress, which made me depressed.

We the price of gas & the cost of everything else going up, we'll probably "vacation" in our own area. It's actually something we enjoy...

I'm not talking about the kind when you look in a mirror, as that can be disconcerting, at best. Your mental image of yourself never quite aligns with what the mirror shows

I'm talking about contemplative time..reflecting on the past. This time of night is my quiet time. Kids are in bed, wife is reading, dog is sleeping. I don't hit the hay for at least another 2 hrs, so my mind has time to delve into memories, distant and recent.

The first thing that comes to my...

COOL! Thanks Citydata! Expect some entries here later.

I've decided to start a blog once I couldn't post on the board because I was being infracted for being off-topic.
:D This way I can't ever be off-topic since it is my blog.
My first topic in [I]The Tao of D[/I] will be about:
[B]Religion and marriage, gay marriage, mixed religion marriage and interracial marriage [/B]
or
to paraphrase Tina:
;) [I]What's love got to do with it?[/I]

Let me start with the history of my father's parents. Although...