A few years ago (way back in 2008), I started this blog as an outlet for my thoughts, observations of everyday life as a stay at home dad, politics…well, kind of about a little bit of everything. I wrote daily, most especially during the election season, and here we are two years later and I have the Mid-Term Elections coming up in the United States in November. After the 08 election, it continued for a while and then I got ill (thank you, almost better now) and had no time or inclination to write. Once again, I have cause to (the elections for starters) and the other because I feel motivated by a need to.
You see, there are a few things I am good at in my life. I’m an excellent cook (insert back pat and self-congratulatory remarks here); I am a font of (what my wife terms) “useless information” …in other words, I have a marked propensity to remember just about everything; and I can write. As to the quality, well that depends upon the day. For the most part, I’m a hell of a writer; I’m able to put on the page what a lot of people may be thinking or can’t even say. As for myself, it’s the only way to keep focused on what I’m doing in a particular moment. Being bi-polar has a number of disadvantages, the primary one being a million thoughts racing through your mind at a million miles an hour. That’s mostly controlled these days by medication, but I still need to focus on one thing at a time; I’m not a multi-tasker like I used to be. So that kind of leaves a guy with a 150 IQ trapped in a bit of a mental conundrum…
Two years on this blog has been here, and I’ve found myself at several crossroads, all of which should have been documented here. Instead they have been inside my head just waiting for the right time to get out…and that starts today. I’m going to try and write about something daily, whether it be about politics (you must know that I am a bleeding heart Liberal by now); my daily goings on as a stay at home dad (especially now that my oldest daughter has turned 13…the fun times have begun in earnest); or musings about the state of the human condition. That’s what this blog has always been about and will continue to be as I (once again) pick up the novel I was writing (that too was on hold). So we’ll try this again.
So as I start my blog up once more it’s appropriate that it comes at the start of Football Season and my beloved NY Giants’ first game of the year at their brand new home in the lovely swamps of The Meadowlands in my adopted home state of New Jersey. The TV will be on, the Cokes will be cold (I might break down and get a couple of O’Doul’s to kick off the season), and the chips at the ready. My girls will be at my side in front of the 51″ widescreen in lovely High Definition (youngest daughter is FINALLY learning the game) dressed in Giants red, white, blue, and gray with the audio system turned up LOUD so we feel like we’re at the stadium. And so it begins…
GO GIANTS!
“Success demands singleness of purpose.” – Vince Lombardi*
“Today, you have 100% of your life left.” – Tom Landry**
*NY Giants Offensive Coach before he went to Green Bay as Head Coach. **The Defensive Coach on those same NY Giants teams was Tom Landry. Both men also played on the same NY Giants teams. Today’s post is dedicated in their memory.
Intersections In Real Time 