I’ve told my boys over the last few years when I’ve encouraged them to participate in contests or sports or scouts that they can’t win what they don’t enter. If you don’t participate in archery, you can’t win. If you don’t enter the writing contest, you won’t have any chance of winning. In fact, McKinley…
Our little kitty, Peach, died a couple of weeks ago. We only had him for about 6 months. We adopted him in early November from the Peninsula Humane Society (where we had previously adopted 3 kittens). McKinley and I had gone there on a Friday afternoon in October to check out the black cats, which…
Today I have a guest blog by my great grandmother, Gloie Mae Flora. No, she’s not alive still, but this is a write up of her notes from her drive from Elwood, Indiana to Seattle, Washington for the 1962 World’s Fair. I love the agricultural observations throughout her notes. The language and notations are a…
I wrote about successful traits of entrepreneurs the last couple weeks and in that process, I ran across another article about entrepreneurs – 50 Signs You Might Be an Entrepreneur. As I read through the list, I alternated between disbelief and satisfaction – satisfaction that I possessed quite a few of the (serious, business oriented)…