Social networking is great for reconnecting with old friends and distant family members, and even for making new business contacts, and I do all of that with it. But there is a humbling downside to it – at least on Facebook, anyway: Your ‘friends’ can post pictures of you, tag you in those pictures and share them with all their friends – and...

If you’re like me, back in late March, when Darren announced that he’d be running the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog series again in April, I jumped on the list lickety-split. I did day #1, read day #2 and promptly fell off the wagon, never to catch up with him the rest of the 31 days. “No problem,” I figured, “I’ve got all the...

Ok, where did we leave off? Oh yeah – Memorial Day weekend…. Well, Sweet Pea was here that weekend, but it did not stop the manual labor efforts in the backyard. While Second Son and I continued work on building gates for the deck, Sweet Pea and PDD went swimming in the kiddie pool: Tuesday after work, Oldest Son had one of his co-workers climb the...