Lord of the Castle

I planned to get into Nashville at midnight…
But we left NJ an hour late…
and I didn’t expect the hours worth of stop and go traffic when we left D.C. …
So, we got into Nashville at 2:30 A.M.!
This little Nashville diversion all started when I called my second daughter about two weeks ago with “a great idea.”
“What [...]

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I wish that every day was like today.
In six hours, I officially gifted the car to my second daughter, got it checked for emissions, registered the car and put on her new Tennessee plates.
She completed her application for community college, learned exactly what she needs to do to become a nurse and got a job [...]

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Before we registered the car, we had to take it to a vehicle emission inspection station. Now, having lived in California for 31 years, I had certain expectations of what this test would be like.
Fortunately, I picked the fastest moving line.
We pulled in and the attendant connect his device to the car. About one minute [...]

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My day got off to a great start. My second daughter and I went to register her “new” car with the Williamson County Clerk. I told the woman behind the counter that I wanted to give the car to her.
She asked “Are you boyfriend and girlfriend, husband and wife, brother or sister…?”
I didn’t know where [...]

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As I walked into the living room of the house where my second daughter is now staying, I heard someone singing a worship song. It sounded like my daughter, but I wasn’t sure. I mean it has been such a long time since I heard her sing…
I crept quietly up the stairs and peeked…
it was [...]

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It seems that I do that fairly regularly. Thankfully, it is usually a good thing.
And she didn’t really cry. Her eyes just welled up with tears.
This morning, I told my second daughter that we (all of us in KC) wanted to help her turn her life around and that we had made a family decision to [...]

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Our second daughter called to inform me that she is moving to Nashville in two weeks!
The mother of the bride has a particular fondness for our daughter and has agreed to let her stay with their family until she gets on her feet!
She has already applied for and received a transfer to the Olive Garden [...]

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20 minutes after we had left the reception last night, my son realized that he had left his expensive aviator sunglasses on our table. After a few quick calls, we learned that the bride’s father had picked them up. He just happens to be one of my best friends so we had a good excuse [...]

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I went to Target to buy the trashcan and saw something I have never seen before.
Since it was a SuperTarget, I decided to replace the groceries that my omnivorous (that means that we eat everything!) family has eaten. As I looked for bacon, I stumbled upon two employees vigorously tossing yoghurt into boxes.
I quickly looked at [...]

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The rehearsal brunch was great fun.
The couple getting married are superstars in the making. He was a national debate champion, a future lawyer, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
She, however, was also a national debate champion and a lawyer in the making. In fact, they had the same debate teacher and he said that the [...]

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