I’ve been feeling strange lately with regards to fatherhood, and I don’t have a great way to describe exactly what it is.

Note: I wrote this article originally nearly three years ago. Since then, prices have changed drastically on LED bulbs so I’ve applied updates to the article in blue text. 

Man, it has been a long time since I’ve written in here. Not since my grandfather died back in 2014 have I made an entry,

On Friday, I returned home to Iowa from a 4-day trip down to Mississippi to attend the funeral of my grandfather,

Life seems to be moving in fast-forward, these days. Every chance I get to make a new entry here, there has been some major development in my little corner of the world to share with the three of you who will see this.

Since I haven’t made an update in a while, I thought I’d touch on a few random topics on this lazy Sunday afternoon.

In November of 2012, the house next door to my parents went up for sale and my wife and I were instantly intrigued.

While my wife was at work yesterday evening, I was sitting on the couch with my laptop when a commercial for Ancestry.com came up on the television.

The first speed bump of 2013 hit me like a truck last week. Every financial analyst at the company I work for was pulled into a room (about 60 including the managers) for a conference call.

With 2012 officially in the rear view, things have definitely calmed down in my life… temporarily, that is. It’s winter in Iowa,