imagine a different world of grilled cheese.

Did you miss me?

P.S. Ignore the broken images…most of those aren’t coming back.

I thought that Part 1 of this story was not long enough so I present you with Part 2, which will be considerably shorter. Last time I left you it was Saturday, March 8, 2008 and the snow had finally stopped at ~9 pm. There isn’t much more left to the story, but I promised you a Part 2, so I will give you a Part 2… Read the rest of this entry »

The story begins on Thursday, March 6, 2008. That is when we started hearing about watches and warnings, when we started hearing about all the snow we were about to receive. No one knew what was coming, the weather people always predic, the “Storm of the Year” which rarely ever arrives. I had a feeling this one might actually deliver but I wasn’t sure. I even joked with my co-workers and folks about having to work at Nordstrom on Saturday and that a foot of snow wouldn’t keep the shoppers from shopping. Little did I know… Read the rest of this entry »

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

I am running in this race because of what Dr. King called “the fierce urgency of now.” Because I believe that there’s such a thing as being too late. And that hour is almost upon us.

This is our time, and I’m grateful to be a part of that.

- Barack Obama

…nor am I a huge SNL fan, but these 2 following videos are pretty funny.