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(Note: This is the fifth in a series of posts about the first meeting of three online friends.)

At least one of you has looked at kids in those crawl tubes at fast-food restaurants and thought, “I wish they had that for adults.” On my recent trip to St. Louis, a unique place granted that [...]

(Note: This is the fourth in a series of posts about the first meeting of three online friends.)
At age 37, I finally found a beer I like. More on that later.
The appetizing aroma of Moonshot’s Irish stew in the Crockpot welcomed us back from the Adrenaline Zone. Conversation wandered from our blogs to [...]

Note: This is the third in a series of posts about the first meeting between three online friends.
At Moksha Gren’s home — affectionately dubbed “the Grenstead,” we marveled at how we all looked in three dimensions. I was a bit surprised that we stood so close to the same height. Though I had [...]

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More on my momentous, fun-filled long weekend is coming soon. Can anyone guess where I was for this panoramic view?
Update: Well, because somebody guessed correctly, I’ll fill in a little more detail. I was in St. Louis, 630 feet from the ground, peering out the narrow windows of the [...]

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I used this pic about a year ago, but I had to include it for my final Project Looking Through post. Anybody else is welcome to join in by scrolling down to the post before this one (or by clicking to go there). Thanks for being a part!
Or, join the talented [...]

Our trip is going well so far. Shannon and I have had plenty of time to go out after I finish my work each day.
Wednesday night, we went to Fayetteville (Arkansas) and enjoyed a park that we couldn’t believe we’d never visited in the five years we lived in that area. Sadly, it [...]

At the DFW airport Sunday afternoon, a TSA lady greets me as I walk through the security scanner. She looks at my shirt and says, “Arkansas Raisinbacks?”
I let it go. “You bet!” I say.
She smiles. “Okay, den, go Raisinbacks.”
I laugh as I pull my x-ray-blasted belongings from four gray plastic bins. [...]

My first (and still only) car that I got brand new was my 1989 Dodge Shadow.
In August 1992, Shannon and I got married and drove my most prized possession from Little Rock, Arkansas to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. It carried us to Gatlinburg and many surrounding sites in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Condoms, [...]

The real question is, “What did we not do during Easter weekend?”
As I mentioned already, the boys hit it off early at my parents’ house. This allowed us to shed a layer of worry and enjoy unfettered access to our extended family.
And Sugarloaf Mountain.
As if the name “Sugarloaf” weren’t derivative enough, the area boasts [...]

Boys do eventually grow out of some of their annoying tendencies. I’m sure girls do, too, but I’ve never brought one up — heck, never even had a niece — and so I claim no expertise in the female arena.
Yeah, so what’s new, right?
On Easter weekend, Benjamin and his cousin, LC, got along great [...]