Sometimes you need to think about what didn’t happen. When something bad happens to you, think about what didn’t go wrong, or how it could have been worse. It sounds a bit weird but let me give you an example.
After hitting the deer the other night, my wife and I starting talking about what could [...]

Life comes at you fast. . . so do deer.
Unfortunately, a small buck ran out in front of us tonight.  We were in the south-bound middle lane of a six-lane highway, on our way to meet a former colleague of Tracy’s for dinner. The deer darted out of the woods, made it across all three [...]

Wow, where does the time go? I can’t believe another week has gone by. As much as I’d like to write more often, I must admit that this is not extremely high on my priority list. Family and work must come first.
Anyway, I had the opportunity to listen to a panel of [...]

Tip of the week:
Due to the passage of the 2003 Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act (FACTA), all Americans are entitled to, upon request, one free credit report from each of the three major credit reporting agencies every 12 months. The three major agencies are Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.
You should always check your credit reports [...]

My wife and I are having our house painted, which, by the way, is not a fun way to spend money – welcome to adulthood and responsibility. We don’t plan on moving any time in the next few years so we’ve decided to take care of our investment, as well as make sure it’s somewhere [...]

The second of three presidential debates was last night.  If you didn’t see it, you didn’t miss anything. So incredibly boring.  The candidates gave their same ‘ol spill on the same ‘ol issues. We’ve heard it before. It’s not really the candidates fault tho, it was the format.  The selected questions weren’t very interesting, and [...]

The current presidential races continually bring up the issue of taxes.  McCain and Obama have very, very different views on taxes and I strongly recommend you research both.  I also recommend you look into economists’ proposed theories on how taxes affect various aspects of our economy.
Personally, I’m not sure how much sense it makes to [...]

I thought I would be witty by basing my first post on some short list of what makes a blog successful. I Googled “successful blog” and got approximately 9,830,000 results, most of which are blogs. Now that’s a lot of blogs to read to find out what makes a successful blog, and there’s really no good way [...]