Musings at Altitude

Even though I’ve been desperately seeking nirvana for as long as I can remember, I’m not sure I’m any closer today to finding it than I was when I first began my search.  It’s an incredibly elusive target, but I’m not going to give up…if I find it just for moments at a time, it’s […]

After almost 2 full days of puzzle mongering, I finally get to share my “honey I’m home” stories!  It almost got ugly though.  My son came strolling in to help with the final 30 or so pieces, and then came the inevitable fight to put that last piece in the puzzle:   I’d like to […]

I popped my head out of my home office just now to see if indeed my wife was still head down over that puzzle.  Indeed she was…in fact…getting feisty again as she can sense, feel, emotionally see the end and that very last piece being put in place. At the risk of encouraging a fiery […]

My worst fear has happened…the puzzle’s not done:   I’ve been home for about 2 hours now and my wife has been head down over the puzzle ever since.  When I ask her why, she quickly snaps “because I have to get this done”.  She’ll proudly pop a piece of the puzzle in place that she’s been desperately […]

While I’ve been off on this latest trip, my wife and 14 year old have been obsessively focused on a puzzle…obviously a fairly difficult puzzle.  I’ve called my wife countless times, text messaged countless more times, and every time she was hovering over the coffee table working on this puzzle. Just for definition, dictionary.com defines […]

I was amused today as I listened to my wife tell me about how she fixed the dishwasher, something that historically we would have quickly called the 1-800-fix-me-now number and paid the $125 “show fee” to have an incredibly talented maintenance guy take the thing apart and then tell us the simple fix, making us […]

After church yesterday, my wife, my daughter and I stopped by Walmart to get some keys made to the house.  For my wife and I, our mission was simple – get to the hardware section, get 2 keys made from one master and 1 key made from the other, and get back on schedule with […]

When I got home yesterday, my wife corrected me and said the changes in behavior that were happening in my life weren’t a “mid life crisis”…a mid life crisis would include a new sports car and an affair.  Now the new sports car sounds very appealing to me right now.  My Acura SUV is almost […]

My mid life crisis is becoming more and more obvious – more things this week that point to a change in behavior, a change in habits, and a clear effort to be different.     A few weeks ago my rolling computer bag blew a wheel, and I’ve been using a temporary carry bag ever since.  This past weekend […]

I’ve spent a lot of time lately thinking back on some of the toughest personal and professional challenges I’ve faced in my life.  Here’s a quick run down on some of those in each category: Personal (1) June 9th will be what would have been the 16th birthday of our daughter Gabrielle who was stillborn […]