i am an almost teary eyed first amendment freak. i love freedom of speech and i wield it daily. i will do so until the speech nazis come take me to speech prison and even there, i’ll probably be put in solitary confinement for screaming obscenities a…[read full blog»]

maybe i’m just getting old, but it seems like people talk differently than they did when i was a kid. i actually remember when the term “awesome” was first being used in that casual, “that dude’s car is awesome” sort of way. before that, “awesome” ha…[read full blog»]

this past weekend was the angelman syndrome walk-a-thon. angelman syndrome is the disorder my precious isabella has. she is missing a small piece of her 15th maternal chromosome. the symptoms of angelman syndrome range from lack of speech and gross m…[read full blog»]

my dad used to say, “it’s a poor frog that won’t croak for his own pond.” well, my pond has recently overflowed. in fact, my pond, nashville tennessee, was almost completely washed away a week ago. the worst flood in the recorded history of…[read full blog»]

as i sit in my warm, cozy kitchen, watching the rain and listening to a disney production in the next room, my son makes up an entire world with spider-man and a hot-wheels car in his bedroom and my daughter sits on the couch and fumbles with a book,…[read full blog»]

as i was about to turn 30, i began getting barraged with cds and letters explaining how and why it was finally time for the person sending said cd to “take the next step” and “go to the next level” with their music. many of these …[read full blog»]

if you spend any time at all on social networking sites (and i do) you know that people like to sound off and tell their story. i like the fact that we now live in a world where everyone can stand up and say what they want on their own little soap bo…[read full blog»]

newton’s third law of physics asserts, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction . who am i to argue with newton? if you jump off a building, the laws of gravity won’t kill you, but they will continue to pull your body down until the …[read full blog»]