Lord of the Castle

Our church had an outreach in a park near the famous Country Club Plaza yesterday afternoon. After successfully changing the blog picture, I washed the construction grime off of me and started to head out the door. Then, an idea whacked me upside the head… “There’s a Jack Stack restaurant just a few blocks from the park… “I [...]

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Buying this house has been a great experience. We bought our first house under very unusual circumstances… Since real estate was so expensive in California, we bought with another young family. My wife never really liked that house. So, since just she and I were involved in picking this house out and we were both in [...]

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Wednesday night is Bible study night. I received a text saying that the meeting was going to be at the McDaniel’s house. About an half hour later, a second text arrived saying that it was being moved to Culver’s on Douglas. Since we still don’t know everyone’s last name, I texted back that I had not [...]

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I guess I should just jump right into to the story before you get any strange ideas regarding the title of this post… I had a tiring day today… and I didn’t really do anything strenuous! It all started last night. I watched a movie with my wife and didn’t get to bed until 11:00. That’s [...]

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Sometimes being a husband and a father is a thankless job… I suppose the same can be said about being a wife or a child…I can’t really see how, but I’ll just ASSUME that is is THEORETICALLY possible…but it’s a stretch. My wife and my youngest daughter recently completed the weight loss portion of a [...]

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My wife has never visited our oldest daughter in Dallas. I think she might be the only member of the family who hasn’t. So, for the better part of a month, she has been looking forward to this week since her school is out on Spring Break.  I too was looking forward to this week but for a [...]

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This blog is in danger of becoming a confessional…(tongue firmly planted in cheek!) I have written about my own mid-life crisis. I have revealed that I have been involved in several long distance relationships for quite some time. I have written about the possibility of my wife having a mid-life crisis. But this post might [...]

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My wife loves watching movies. Me…not so much. Well, that’s not entirely true. I like watching GOOD movies. But so many of them aren’t very good… In my opinion… And while I am watching one of those “it’s oh-kay” movies, my preoccupation with time starts rearing its ugly head and I get restless. I try, but [...]

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When my wife made the big weight loss bet with me, I had two thoughts: if she does it, she will look great and that will be fun, if you know what I mean! If she doesn’t, I don’t have to get braces. Either way, I win. When she said that she wanted to go [...]

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On the way home from church, I drove by the little frozen waterfall… As I drove by, I thought that it was worth taking another picture. So… I started backing up… Made sense to me. Evidently, my wife didn’t think so. As I put it in reverse, Bunch said, “What are you doing?” “Backing up.” “You can’t back [...]

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