Final? Thoughts…

Final? Thoughts…

Well, THAT escalated quickly.  I knew it would generate attention but I didn’t quite realize that it would grow to those proportions.  As it is, there are a few things I’d like to expand upon, clean up, explain.  My heart is heavy for the whole situation. ...
Love and Support

Love and Support

Last night was our senior night for the Penn Hills Girls Volleyball Team.  There were over 200 people in attendance.  Between games two and three there was a serving game open to the public to win prizes.  I turned and look and saw something amazing.  Joy.  There were...
A Hurricane is Coming

A Hurricane is Coming

A hurricane is coming.  Irma is bearing down on the good (well, and bad I guess) folks of Florida.  It may just be the strongest ever to come from the Atlantic.  People are preparing the best way they know how.  Stores are selling out of everything.  Things that could...
I’m Just Worried…

I’m Just Worried…

It happens from time to time.  I only really noticed it in the last two weeks.  It’s something that my son Joe does.  He will completely and irrationally worry about something that basically has no chance of occuring.  It’s not the dark, it’s not...
What Can I Do?

What Can I Do?

Mariah Carey had already left the Time Square stage.  Snoop was strolling along the stage with Pitbull.  You were wherever you were and I was in my living room with my brother and sisters and some of their families.  As the clock wound down I was hit by two things....
What Love Looks Like

What Love Looks Like

It was only minutes before Trey’s funeral ceremony was to begin.  We were all in the room dedicated to family (ish).  Just before we walked out I got up, turned and faced my family and friends, and said, “Before we go out there, take a minute and look around.  This is...