Giving thanks… Sometimes in this busy non-stop gogogo life we forget to just pause and look around. Thanksgiving is a day that reminds me of how I should feel every day: thankful for the wonders of my life, and eager to help those who have less.

Some of the things I’m most thankful for…

My wife and kids. This wonderful woman who accepts me for the dork that I am, and these two amazing children who make me want to be the guy they think I am – they’re my world.

My job- I get to do something I love, with people that I love, and truly believe that in our small way we’re helping to make the world a better place.

My family: my folks, my brother and sister, my in-laws and neices and nephews and all the rest. Don’t know what I’d do without them.

My friends – the big collection of folks I’m lucky enough to call my friends, and the handful of folks I’d call my very close friends.

As I write this, I’m thinking of so many other things I’m thankful for… my family’s health, baseball, my iPhone, coffee, our house and the trees on our land, our dog Sneakers, the opportunities I’ve been given in my career, my kids relationships with their grandparents… so many things.

I’m a lucky man.

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I love having a fireplace in this time of year!

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I love voting!

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We are what we think. All that we are arises from our thoughts. Within our thoughts we make our world.
-Buddha

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My daughter’s pumpkin muffins! Assorted sizes, your mileage may vary.

She put a ton of work into these! Cream cheese frosting, yum!!

And take note: pretzel stems!

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I spent the weekend at Otterbein College, in Westerville Ohio, working on scenes with students for their upcoming Senior Showcase performance. A lot of fun! Otterbein’s great, and I’ll return a couple of times over the next few months to keep working with them until they take the Showcase to New York to perform it for directors and agents.

Fighting a big headache tonight, but enjoying resting with some tea and the World Series! Rooting for the Rays just because they’re in the American League, but I think the Phillies are going to take the Series. (it was pretty cool, though, to see the Phillies pitcher hit his first career homerun! What a place to do it!)

Oy – it’s now 10 to 2 Phillies. I think it’s time to go to sleep and let my ibuprofen do what it does!

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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin is spent. Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you.
-Carl Sandburg, poet

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SPOOOOOOOOOOOOKY…

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Poor Max, he’s got a bit of a stomach bug. We were up a bunch last night and he stayed home from school today.

Even though it stops me from going in to work, and you never want your kid to be sick, there’s something to be said for laying around on a rainy day and chatting with your son.

I’ve been trying to remember when it was as a kid that I first became aware of all the issues surrounding who my friends were, who my “Best” friends were, who was not a gpod friend, and all that stuff. It’s amazing to listen to my little boy working through all of those issues in 3rd grade… The cliché “They grow up fast” is amazingly accurate! I just hope I can be helpful with my guidance.

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