Black Oak's Daughter

I was informed by a friend at work on Friday that today would be awful.  He wasn’t wrong.  This economy sucks and my company is holding it’s own but the leadership made a decision that is difficult for most of us to agree with, and laid off about 15% of the company.
We went through a [...]

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The chiropractor is going well.  I brought him my X-Rays Monday.  Turns out I’m goofy on the inside too.  Aside from a minor amount of trauma induced  arthritis, my neck curves backwards. Most people have a sort of open C shape where their neck curves a bit with the back of the C facing their [...]

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1. Tonight for dinner, we had chicken, rolls, and some fresh from the store strawberries. The first bite of the first non-hot house grown, deep red, sun ripened, juicy, sweet strawberry in months happened mid meal. Probably the most sensual moment I’ve had in a week.  I think I had a mouthgasm
2. A [...]

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I finally got a Wii Fit last week.   I’ve been doing a few more things with it every day.  This morning I unlocked the advanced step and the advanced slalom.  I’ve tried a few Yoga moves, and it says that my balance and form is good. The strength moves scare me a little but I’ll [...]

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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. -Benjamin Franklin

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Sometimes things going on in the world bother me. Not newsy things, but just general “progress”.   I think about things that I learned to love when I was younger. Old photographs,  notes that my grandfather wrote, the recipe box that held all of my grandmothers handwritten baking recipes, my daughter’s schoolwork.
I think about what we’re [...]

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Presence is more than just being there.
- Malcolm Forbes

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It’s been an interesting week.
I won’t talk about the specifics at work, but it’s busy, we’re doing OK, and as much stress as there is there, the people that I work with all say the same thing. We’re greatful to have jobs, and as much as the workload  sucks, the people are great. We have [...]

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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal.  I had an ambition to Build.   -John D. Rockefeller

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Where would you rather be right now? It’s 6 AM, I’d rather stay in my nice warm bed. If the bed were in Hawaii, I wouldn’t complain

Are you an only child? No, but my brothers are significantly older than I, so all the research says I might [...]

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