Still Pushing The Comfort Zone

I like that I spent several months as the house guest of The Comforts. I learned as much about me as I did about them over the course of a few seasons in their first home.

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It marked the last time I jumped in leaf piles, the first time (since my divorce) that I kept to a structured dining schedule, and the perfect time to move to a different part of town. They’ll always have a unique place in my memory.

Fall, 2009

 

Speaking of comforts……the last couple of years has required a continual extension of my own comfort zone. Some weeks my sanity

depends on it. It also likely serves as a source of near insanity.  This would be one.

For a number of reasons I decided to enter the big leagues of self publishing/blogging. It started several months ago with my photo site and continues with my personal blog. I’m officially on www.wordpress.org and self hosted. Working my way solo through the transfer of google’s free site to a self-hosted (i.e. paid) site hasn’t been simple. I’m not technically inclined–in fact for my entire professional working life I was inclined to toss something like this over the wall as a ‘growth opportunity’ for someone else. What comes around goes around, right?

While it appears I’ve successfully imported all my content from my google – bloodspot site this is my first test at drafting something new on wordpress.org. We’ll work on making it pretty over the next couple of weeks. For now (baby step #1) we’re chasing simple functionality.  Let’s see how it goes…..

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FoTo FriDay 01.24.14

Yes, it does snow (a little) in the South.  Yes, it’s bizarrely paralyzing (for days!) to virtually every school and business Mt. Vernon Trail @ National Airport (Note the proper name of the airport,,,,,)

Breaking Host Records

Records and marks exist for everything. We’d be in the money for ‘Entertaining or Hosting Friends in a Twelve Month Period’. Key being friends—not associates, operatives, or (unfortunately) even family–but friends. People we could (and have, and do) call out of the blue and request a favor or make an announcement with no judgement. People … Read moreBreaking Host Records

Remember, Don’t Forget, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

MLK Day 2014 By now most, and I’d put it at a very high majority, of Americans have put the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day activities and messages clearly in their rear-view mirrors. That’s unfortunate; almost tragic. With our collective interests focused on —the next thing— and our increasing individual short attention spans even something … Read moreRemember, Don’t Forget, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.