“Go out and see just one local band a week. It will change your life.” ~ Mikey Dee. WMFO, Tufts University, Medford MA
I’m hurt far too easily, and stay hurt for far too long. My brain understands, but my gut, or my heart, or whatever, has a mind of its own. I’m glad I have someone who understands my own version of insanity, for the most part. I’d really rather not be this way, but I probably always will be, now.
Remembering a Marine- Trane McCloud on Memorial Day
Reblogging the first Memorial Day post I saw. God bless this Marine and his family. Check out his memorial page.
On Memorial day I always think of my Marine buddy, Trane McCloud, who was killed in Iraq, but even though it’s been almost eight years since we lost Trane not a day goes by that I don’t think of him. I made a little bracket out of 550 desert camo cord and it hangs on my wrist as a daily reminder of the ultimate sacrifice my friend made for our freedom.
Trane was a great man, good husband, good father and good Marine. He inspired those around him to greatness. He left a wife and three young children behind and if you have some time this Memorial day read the stories below that tell what kind of man he was. Trane was a special person to me, but he represents so many others who like him gave their all for our country.
This link will take you to a memorial…
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Angel Oak
I want to go see this oak tree.
Four Working Cities Called “Top Spots to Live”
This is interesting. Lynn, Somerville, Salem, and Lawrence called great places to live. I question them all if you have children you want to send to school, and I question Lynn and Lawrence under any circumstances. Lots of crime in both cities, lots of illegal immigration burden, and not much unique on the upside. There are nice aspects to both Lynn, and Lawrence, but nothing that you can’t fine elsewhere. Salem has a lot of upsides, as does Somerville. I suppose this is all good for property values, and I own property in two of the four cities mentioned.
Well, how about that!
We knew that the 20 Massachusetts cities that were eligible for the Boston Fed’s Working Cities Challenge had many important assets among their challenges as small, postindustrial, gateway cities, but it’s nice to see the Boston Globe cite four of them as great places to live. The cities are Lynn, Somerville, Salem, and Lawrence.
Writes Elizabeth Gehrman, “Now that the economy’s recovering, home values in many places are on the rise. ‘In Greater Boston it’s going gangbusters,’ says Timothy Warren, CEO of The Warren Group, the Boston-based real estate tracking firm that provided the price data used here. …
“One factor driving up prices, Warren explains, is that after a seven-year slump in the market, ‘there’s a lot of pent-up demand.’ Many first-time home buyers had put off the big purchase amid scary headlines about foreclosures and short sales. ‘These people are having babies now…
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Direction
I guess, before I start posting, I have to decide in what direction I want to take this blog.
I could use this blog to focus on the happy things in my life. I could use it to count the ways in which I am blessed.
I could use it to rant, complain, and vent about the negative things in life. I could post when I feel hurt, angry, or betrayed. I could post whenever I’m upset, or whenever I have something to get off my chest. I better check my bandwidth and storage allotments before I take things in that direction.
I could post funny observations on life. I’m fucking hilarious, sometimes. Probably not often enough. Most of those posts would involve alcohol.
I suppose I also most choose whether to treat this blog like a different version of Twitter, or Facebook. One in which I just post random thoughts and observations as they come to mind. Or to treat this blog as something different. To actually write, edit, re-write, and not hit “Publish Post” until I have something worthy, something inspirational or thought provoking, something that will elicit some sort of emotion or response from the reader.
Who am I kidding? Nobody is going to read this stuff!
Stay Tuned
I have no idea what I’m going to do with this blog, but stay tuned.
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