Happy 69th Birthday, Mom!

Today is a really special day celebrating a special birth. Yep, I’m talking about my mom. Who else did you think I was referring to? My folks live upstate in the Albany area, so we spent the weekend there to celebrate a late Hanukkah mixed with mom’s birthday. My sister lives up there with her family, so they hung out with us all weekend too. It was a great weekend filled with a variety of …

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Hide the Women and Children – My Favorite Martian Blog Hop is Coming!

UPDATE: Read the Blog Hop here! I haven’t done a blog hop in a while but this one is a bit too tough to pass up. My geeky blogging buddy Natasha from JustaDashofGeek (definitely check out her geektasticly adorable blog) emailed me to tell me about this exciting new blog hop she’s going to be part of and she wanted me to join in on the fun! Called My Favorite Martian Blog Hop, a ton of …

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Innocence Lost – The Tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary

I haven’t written in a few days. Not since I first heard news of the tragic events in Newtown, Connecticut. I’ve wanted to write. Get my feelings down but it’s all been a complete jumble of emotions, I didn’t even know where to start. Anger. Shock. Disbelief. Grief. Horror. I can’t even fathom what it’s been like for those actually involved in this tragedy. When I first heard the news on the radio during my …

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The New ‘Man of Steel’ Trailer May Actually Turn Me Into a Superman Fan

I’ve never liked Superman. I’ve collected comic books since the 3rd Grade, and from the thousands of issues I’ve read (not to mention cartoons I watched over and over), I still found Superman just, well… Super Dull. He’s crazy powerful. Way too goody goody. And his secret identity is a total goof. Seriously, what kind of challenges can you put in his path? The Toy Man? That’s one of his big villains? It just seemed …

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ProFlowers Really Has Some Great Gifts for the Wife, Besides Flowers!

I’ve heard of ProFlowers before and even used them to send, well, yes, flowers in the past. But I never knew they had so many other great offerings on their site. Finding the perfect holiday gift for my wife is always a challenge. Probably because most guys are pretty terrible at shopping. And I’m not just talking about the fact that we usually wait until the last minute. So when I was given the opportunity …

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