Oh my, oh my, oh my! My normally quiet home has transcended into a madhouse! But it’s a happy madhouse. Yep, the house is chock-a-block…
Have you ever wondered how someone becomes 100% awesome? Well, here’s a Venn diagram to explain it to you! Yay! for awesome parents!
Just a quick post to say: Happy 66th birthday to the world’s greatest daddy – EVER!!
Since 1775, the United States Marine Corps has been winning battles and defending our nation. On what marks the 235th birthday of the Corps, I…
WooHoo! I made a trip to the homeland this weekend to make blagenda with my folks and one of my sisters. Her kids and my…
Today is International Left-Handers’ Day. Yay! A whole day set aside to celebrate the awesomeness of being a lefty! So, for my part of the celebration,…
I was born as a homeless transient, living in hotel rooms on the road for the first couple of weeks of my life. Added to…
I love stir fry. It’s amazingly awesome food. (Except for those icky water chestnuts and bamboo shoots that my folks always put in the stuff.…
My dad is going bats. BATS, I tell you! And he starts today. Yes, folks, my father will spend the next few weeks accomplishing his…
With pride and passion, I hung my American flag in front of my home today. With pride and passion, I am remembering our fallen soldiers,…
The folks came to visit, so while Daddy went on a bike ride to Palouse and back, Mum and I headed to Moscow for some…
Remember when you were a kid and on Christmas Eve you were so very excited for Santa to arrive that you couldn’t sleep? You’d wish…
It’s Monday night and I’m busy getting ready for my holidays: Doing laundry; packing; cooking up “leftover stew” with the contents of the fridge to…
It was the inaugural “Freeze Your Fanny, Scrabble Showdown, and Burns’ Supper Extravaganza” at the Ryan house! Read the original story here on RyanCentric or go…
I had my first doctor visit of the new year today as a follow-up after becoming quite ill on Christmas day. Sadly, a new year…
Several weeks ago I decided that the best way to deal with Christmas was to avoid it. I figured that if I treated it as…