Know what I miss? Sitting around with friends and family on the couch, flipping through a photo album. Y’know, the kind where you carefully place two or three photos on a page and then slide the plastic covering over it to keep them all in place. Except, over time, the pages yellow. The photos slide around. Pages rip out. Actually, scratch that, I don’t miss the photo albums, I miss the memories of looking at …
Many thanks to Pringles® for sponsoring this post, so I can share my musical thoughts with you and talk about having a rockin’ summer! Air guitar is pretty cool. Having a great singing voice is killer. But drums? Yeah, nothing beats ’em. (Sorry, pun actually not intended!) The coolest thing about drums? Easily the drumsticks. Specifically twirling them. Back in high school, I remember wasting hours and hours of class time just trying to twirl …
You may not believe me, but it is true. Back in the 1990s, I won an office Beard Off! A large handful of the guys in the office (all of us in our early 20s), joined in. We started the month completely clean shaven and then had a full 6 weeks to grow the fullest, bestest beard ever. Some had splotchy blonde beards. Others had all of three hairs on their chinny chin chins. The …
My childhood can be summed up in 11 La’s. As in, “La, la, la, la la la, la, la, la, la, laaaa.” Otherwise known as The Smurfs theme. Yes, I remember spending soooo many Saturday mornings on the couch with my sister Beth as we watched Papa Smurf lead his merry band of Smurfs (and one Smurfette!) on all sorts of adventures. My favorite Smurf was clearly Handy Smurf. That guy was the McGuyver of …
Okay, okay. I’m married. Geez, coming on 17 years this month! Even still, these days, my mouth has been salivating for something new. Something sweet. Something… subzero. Yes, I was invited to work on a campaign for the ice cream gurus at Klondike. I said yes and… well… let’s just say if it wasn’t illegal for a number of reasons, I might have to marry one of Klondike’s ice cream bars. Sure we all know …
