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An Insider’s Look on Black Friday

November 28, 2010

My completed bucket list of life’s greatest moments contains such jewels as: biking down the volcano tour of Haleakala in Maui, to walking Jesus’ footsteps on the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem. But truth be known, not even the birth of my third child Daniel, compares to the joy I get by putting on my elbow pads and wrestling some grandma to the ground to buy the latest door buster special on Dagger kayaks. I’m talking about that holiday of holidays, the coup de grace known to the garage sale savvy shoppers–as BLACK FRIDAY.

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08/02/09: Non Shopper’s Trip to the Grocery Store

August 2, 2009

I’ve been happily married for 8+ years. I have been married long enough that we have settled into our roles as husband and wife, as well as, super parents. We have agreed to a “division of powers.” What I mean by this, we understand who does what better and have separated these powers. For example, [...]

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11/05/08 Good & Bad–21st Century Hotel Features

November 6, 2008

When I think back to when I was a kid, family vacations involved long road trips and stops at scary looking motels. Back then you didn’t pre-plan your road stays. When we got tired, my parents would pull off the highway and look for a lite up “Vacancy” sign. We would check in, pre-pay, and [...]

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