Category: Musings

Musings Parenting

Growing up with Green Day and Finally Seeing Them in Concert

Musings Social Issues

Remembering 9/11

Feeling Hopeless in 2023

Honoring My Friend

Musings Parenting

Another Year of Being Overlooked as The Sexiest Man Alive: I Demand a Recount!

Musings Social Issues

A Group of People Chose Chaos Over Civility at an AOC event in a Boys and Girls Club

Time Doesn’t Stop for a Dream

A Bruce Willis Story

Musings Social Issues

Cancel the Behavior and Not the Person: Permitting Growth Within Cancel Culture

Faith Health Musings

I Had a Stroke 21 Years Ago on This Day: I have a lot to be thankful for

Musings Parenting

Overlooked Again: The 2021 Sexiest Man Alive is…

Musings Parenting

Baby Should Have Stayed in the Corner

Musings Parenting

10 Ways Ryan Reynolds is Trying to Be Like Me

Musings Parenting

Celebrating 10 years of Being a Blogger: Looking Back at Blogging Journey

Musings Parenting

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and His Fight Against Toxic Masculinity

Musings Parenting Travel

Visiting The Baseball Hall of Fame with Kids

Growing up with Green Day and Finally Seeing Them in Concert
When I was a junior in high school, I walked into a record store and was perusing when I was approached by an employee. We got to talking and I shared with him my love of punk rock. We chatted about Iggy Pop, The Ramones, The Misfits, Black Flag, and The Clash. While chatting, he […]
Getting Touched by a Ghost inside Leap Castle: An Irish Castle Story
I climbed up the narrow spiral staircase behind my group. I was the last one up. As I climbed, I noticed a small wooden door. I grasped the handle and pulled it open. The door led to an empty and dark hallway. In my right hand, I held my heavy Sony a7Rii camera. In my […]
Learning Apps for Struggling Students and Students Wanting To Push Themselves More
When it comes to educating our children, we need all the help we can get. Whether you have a struggling student or a student that breezes through their work and needs to be challenged more, parenting a school-age kid is hard. We want what’s best for our kids and will do and try anything to […]
Remembering 9/11
I’m not sure why, but I’ve never written about 9/11. I’m always at a crossroads if I should write when something happens that triggers a story. But when you’re a writer, you write about what you feel. You write your story. For all of us that were alive on September 11, 2001, 9/11 is part […]
Taking a Black Taxi Tour of Belfast is the Best way to See and Learn About the City
Our taxi driver, Paddy O’Donnell, sat behind the wheel sharing a tragic story of the reason a monument was erected. On the spot, civilians were murdered and homes burned down. As he spoke to us, a Frenchman on a bicycle rode up to Mr. O’Donnell’s window. Paddy rolled the window down and the man on […]

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