If you have nothing left to live for, then you should keep on living just to see what happens next. Never give up; never stop searching; never stop exploring, questioning, or adventuring.
Here is a story of epic proportions. This is the stuff movies are made of, but it’s all real. Unbelievable and horrifying, yet [...]

Ugh, I made a terrible mistake. I looked at the site’s stat page and saw someone had recently viewed a post from over two years ago. I went back and read it. It was about week 2 when we were doing Body for Life.
Damn, I sure used to be optimistic! I sounded happy, too!
To [...]

I recently read an article that said there is a shift in a fundamental belief that Americans have long held near and dear to their hearts. In the past, when times got tough, Americans paid their mortgages while not paying their credit cards. It used to be that home ownership was the Holy Grail. People [...]

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So, as you all know, we are facing a financial dilemma. Stefan’s unemployment runs out at the end of this month and we don’t know what we’re going to do after that. The job market in Richmond is pitiful, as is the real estate market. All I know for sure is that we are in [...]

I have been made aware on more than one occasion that I have not written a single blog for this month. My deepest apologies to all you wonderfully faithful followers. It has been a crazy month and I just haven’t had the time to write anything.
Now I find myself with a small window of time, [...]

Stefan and I play this online game called World of Warcraft (WoW). Most of you have probably heard of it; maybe many of you have played it even. But in case not, here’s a quick description of the game:
When you log on, you get to create a character that you will name, clothe, feed and [...]

Facebook freaks me out sometimes. It is so so weird to get friend requests from people back in high school – those days touched by teenage angst – it’s amazing we all grew up and mellowed out. I’ve sent a few friend requests to some old high school acquaintances – people I liked but we [...]

I stumbled across this website called My Budget 360 and at first it was cool and exciting, because it has so many articles with charts and graphs and numbers about the current economic crisis and what led up to it.
But as I continued to read the doom and gloom and their forecast of seeing unemployment [...]

It seems I took a tumble off the back of the wagon sometime in January while we’ve been hibernating. I started out strong, but as January deepened, my gym-going began to waver. Sometime early February it got spotty, and the last couple of weeks I’ve gotten myself there about once a week. I haven’t been [...]

On the drive in this morning, I heard the perfect song. Perfection, I am learning, is a personal thing and therefore subjective. One of life’s little ironies!
The perfect song, in my own version of perfection, blends layers of instruments into one magnificently swelling flow. It is almost always played in a minor key and possesses [...]