Miscellaneous

I encountered real poverty head on when my dad went to Vietnam back in 1969. For some reason, when he went overseas we couldn’t live in on base housing; I never learned the reason why. So, last minute we ended up moving to Kansas City, Missouri, to live with my grandmother. When my grandmother had [...]

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Tomorrow is Blog Action Day. Its purpose is to highlight the problem and issue of poverty around the world. A Blog Action Day website has been set up to help track everyone who says they’re going to participate in this action. I’ve decided not only to participate, but I’m going to write a different post [...]

Back in April, I wrote something called Mitch’s List, which was my “thank you” list to all the people who had helped me through the past year in achieving my goals, both professionally and personally. Something prompted me to revisit that list today, and I’m really glad I did. Seems that, when I wrote it [...]

Today is Blog Day, but this year I have two blogs with different focuses. So, I’m going to recognize some blogs here that have to do with one type of thing, then some blogs on my other blog that have to do with what I talk about over there. I’m not sure it’s cheating or [...]

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Yesterday Michael Jackson turned 50 years old; 50! Talk about defining moments on one’s life. I’m not ready for MJ to turn 50; it means that I’m that just closer to reaching it myself, and I’m certainly not ready for myself to be 50. Michael Jackson is my favorite performer of all time. I don’t [...]

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Tonight I went with my wife to a financial planner. She’s been talking about getting advice on a retirement plan for herself, and who am I to stand in the way, right? I have a financial planner, though, and didn’t want to go, but she kept telling me this guy was insisting that I show [...]

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Back on November 6th, I wrote on this blog that I was going on insulin for the first time due to diabetes. I was thinking it was time for an update; trust me, things just never go properly with me. I started Levemir on that night, and didn’t have any problems. Two nights later, I [...]

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