http://theflogg.com Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:16:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My sister died when I was a teenager.  She had an inoperable brain tumor.  We watched for two years as the cancer slowly took control of her body, day by day, as her physical and mental capabilities incrementally diminished, until the cancer eventually took her life.  I don't know what ... http://theflogg.com/uncategorized/talk-daughters/ Driving around the block the other day, I saw three newspapers sitting in  someone's driveway.  It was an unusual sight because you just don't see newspapers delivered in the suburbs anymore.  Paper boys are extinct.  One of my favorite activities used to be sitting on the back deck with a ... http://theflogg.com/uncategorized/fishwrap-dead/ First of all, I am amazed that I have helped create a human being and have gone through sixteen years with him.  His mom and I are excited for him and we truly hope he is enjoying his high school years since we don't have much time left with him.  ... http://theflogg.com/uncategorized/sweet-16/ It's not just the end of the year, it's the end of a decade.  Puts things in a different light if you think of it that way.  Do you feel worn out at the end of a year?  I sure do.  I think it has more to do with the ... http://theflogg.com/blog/decade/ The Hooks family just completed one week of barf-o-rama.  So far, I am the lucky one that seems to have eluded the illness but I do have an impending sense of doom that something bad is going to happen at any moment.  It all started eight days ago when we ... http://theflogg.com/blog/flu/ This past weekend I went down to Rosarito.  For those of you who don't know, Rosarito is a small beach town about thirty minutes south of the U.S./Mexico border.  Rosarito is a cheap weekend getaway for southern Californians.  For many years, I would usually go down twice a year, once ... http://theflogg.com/blog/senorita-afraid/ I want you to think back to when you were a kid.  Do you remember "No Soliciting" signs on the front doors of businesses and houses?  It was a different time before email and websites and eight hundred television stations.  There were actually door to door salesman that would walk ... http://theflogg.com/uncategorized/fundraising-hell/ During my formative years,  we lived in Dallas, Texas from when I was four years old to about eight years old.  At some point during this time, I developed an interest in the NFL.  I was a big Cowboys fan during the days of Roger Staubach, Drew Pearson, Tony Dorsett, "Too ... http://theflogg.com/blog/tough-fan/ Being a business owner has a lot of challenges that employees don't have, but one of the perks is being able to make key life choices without a boss or management looking over your shoulder all of the time.  One of my life choices has been not to travel being ... http://theflogg.com/blog/home-sweet-home/ It's been awhile.  How's everyone doing?  I haven't written a blog in three weeks.  It seems that the summer season has gotten the best of me, but with Labor Day being the official end of summer I am ready to put out some blogs.  I did the usual things that I ... http://theflogg.com/blog/summer-vacation/