Over the past 18 months I’ve had friends lose loved ones.
Some lost a grandparent, some lost a parent, others lost a pet who was as close to them as any human companion.
As I was preparing this weeks updates I looked at some of the posts from my previous Really? blog and discovered this gem from the summer of 2008:
When you have 10 minutes, go visit and explore his site, Days with My Father.
My father passed away 3 years before my mother, otherwise, this story could have been mine.
See, my Dad suffered from some of the same afflictions that Phillip’s father does. Namely short term memory loss. It got to the point where he stopped driving because he would forget how to get back home.
I’ll give you some hints about navigating the site:
If you move your mouse to the far left, you can click and go to a page of thumbnails which you can also click on and do directly to that page.
I would urge you, though to simply scroll to the bottom of each page and you’ll see the edge of the next page which you can click on. This is the best way to read and absorb the site.
Some of the pages have naration on the left side, others are simply a photograph. There are 36 pages total.
When I started this website in October as a replacement for the 4 or 5 other blogs I was previously maintaining, I reduced the number of updates from 46 to 26 per week.
One way to do this was to only post on weekdays.
I called it the 5/5/5 plan.
5 updates at 5am, 5 days a week.
That includes the Fort Wayne Site of the Day which features a link to a Fort Wayne area website or blog; Collective Wisdom which focuses on Media, Marketing, and Advertising stuff, written by others with my own introductory comments.
There’s also a daily Sales Tip; ScLoHo’s Social Media Adventure which focuses on social media and webbie stuff; and the Really? column which is whatever I want it to be, often personal.
Plus a 6th update on Wednesday. The Not-So Secret Writings of ScLoHo is my unpublished book on marketing related stuff that may turn into a book in 2012.
We will see…
But no updates on Saturday or Sunday.
Except, I can’t help myself sometimes.
Last weekend I did a week in review from the Social Media Adventure column.
This weekend I want to share with you a review of this past weeks updates from my Really? column, partly due to the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday.
Last weekend my wife Kathy and I shared dinner with my daughter Rachael and her husband Brandon.
The next day, I wrote all of this weeks REALLY? updates.
I am often amazed at how each of my kids have turned out.
Take my youngest, Tiffany for example.
Like her siblings we had our tough times but we’ve had fantastic times too.
Thursday I get to see her and her husband of 5 years Jon and young Calvin who will be 6 months old on 11/28/11.
I challenged her to start a photo blog of Calvin and post one picture of him every day and so far she has done so and more.
With Tiff I am amazed at how she gets light-headed at the thought of having blood drawn and is now changing diapers and crap while taking care of Calvin and Jon as a Mom and wife.
I wonder what happened to my little girl, but she is still there, just a parent herself.
Do you appreciate and love your family as much as I do mine?
Due to being called out by both of my daughters for the way I spelled Grateful as Greatful when they say this update this morning, here’s an explanation.
Call it conditioning.
For the last several years, before I started working with Cirrus ABS. I worked for a group of radio stations in Fort Wayne which includes WXKE, ROCK 104. We launched an annual promotion called the Greatful Shed Giveaway. This was a shed filled with “guy stuff” and custom painted with Greatful Dead style logo’s.
So I have been spelling grateful, greatful for the past several years. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Despite being several months pregnant and working her tail off to launch a couple websites for herself and her company, she has decided to embark on this project.
Check it out and see why I smile daily when I think of her.
Life has not been easy for Josh, but despite it all he has a strength that lives one day at a time with an eye on the future and a heart for others.
A couple years ago when I turned 50 about 3 weeks after Josh turned 25 it was a time of reflection for me as I looked back on all that I had been thru since I was his age and I was excited for both of us.
Wondering what the next 25 years will hold.
To give you a sense of who he is, here’s a brief video from a few years ago:
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