Tuesday, January 5, 2010 No Comments
Christmas 2009 draws to a close as I spend Saturday driving my kids from Iowa City to Chicago for them to hop a flight back to Nashville. This holiday season was spent with the family at my folks place in Van Horne; along with Jared, Haley, Beth, John, Emmett, Christine, Dave, Larry, Lou and my [...]
Friday, December 25, 2009 No Comments
So, Christmas started this year with Angie and I traveling on Christmas Eve to her folks place in Cedar Rapids. There, we would trade gifts, watch her brother’s peculiar kids and eat… a LOT. I’m not entirely sure that her family has really go the hang of Christmas gifts, because her brother (Rich) gave me [...]
Sunday, June 14, 2009 1 Comment
Shortly after it was announced that the Well Fargo Arena in Des Moines was hosting Coldplay on June 12, 2009… I purchased tickets on the first level balcony. Although I thought that the stage was to be right in front of me, I was just as jazzed with the seating when I realized they would [...]
Friday, May 22, 2009 No Comments
Since my mother, Mary Albers, passed away, I’ve felt rather listless. Mom had a knack for helping me put life into perspective. And, now that she’s “shuffled off this mortal coil”…I’ve felt a little out of my element… so to speak. It’s one thing to know that you are OK, but it’s completely another to [...]
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 No Comments
y family is rather fond of cooking as a way of beating the stress during the holiday season. This Christmas will be ominously different as this will be the first since my mother passed away. To cheer me up, my father recently passed along a Christmas Cookie recipe that sounded interesting, but since our tastes [...]
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