Black Oak's Daughter

As I’m writing this, I have Nova playing in the background.  Remember Nova?  On PBS? I haven’t watched it in years. I usually flip past anything documentary-ish because I lived with someone for a decade and a half that watched nothing but documentaries. I’m not against them, I’m just really tired of them, and unless [...]

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We lost some huge personalities this week. Personally I’m a lot more upset about Farrah Fawcett than Michael Jackson.  I respect his talent, which was huge, but he had so many problems, and that negativity overshadowed the pure energy that he was when he was performing.  His life was twisted and tortured by his own [...]

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I am going to try an make this a non depressing blog post. Hang with me for a bit. I’m an orphan. My parents are long gone. I don’t say this so that you’ll feel sorry for me. It’s just a statement of fact.  My mom died when I was 25. Dad passed 17 years [...]

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My dear friend Ken complained that I hadn’t written 1000 words about a cat hairball or some other trivia in my world, so I’m here to report that there have been no recent hairballs, (YAY!) but life has been busy. It’s SPRING people!  There are lawns to cut, plants to water, sun to enjoy. Saturday [...]

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Really, but I haven’t had much time/energy to write lately, so here’s a few random thoughts: I feel good. I started treadmilling on Sunday. Two days on, one day off. One mile a day to start with. I’ll up that as I feel ready to do more. For now a mile is enough.  It doesn’t [...]

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I’ve been thinking a lot lately, and I think that I’m going to take a lesson that I’ve learned along the way in the business world and apply it to my life. A while back, I met Bobby Rahal. He was speaking to the group that I was a part of about his personal philosophy [...]

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