This is our photo-shoot week at work, when I go out with a hired photographer and capture our landscapes looking their Summertime best.

In addition to directing the photographer, I get to hose down pavements so they look wet and sparkly, clean up doggie and kid toys, and, if the clients are home, shoot the breeze with them. It's the "pinch me, I get paid to do this?" part of my job as a landscape architect.

For lunch today the photographer and I grabbed some sandwiches…

To honour Pride Week, I’m inspired by one of the most famous and flamboyant men in rock and roll history, a man with one of the most powerful singing voices the world has ever heard, a man loved by heterosexual hooligans, glam boys, and everyday people: Freddie Mercury.

The man was…

Just starting this blog Today! :0

I will try to follow this

I have to journal again everyday, that is always on my todo list

I just found out I did 1800 on sat's!! I'm so happy!

I at first got a 1625, which was below what I wanted..but Now I have a decent score to move on with and try my luck at colleges

Pan American Airways began the first transatlantic passenger service on this day in 1939.…

The bicycle was patented in America by W.K. Clarkson, Jr. on this day in 1819.

A bicycle, also known as a…

Male-only draft registration was deemed constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court on this day in 1981. The ruling would uphold Proclamation 4771, signed by U.S. President James E. Carter, Jr., reinstating military selective service…

I'm going to Europe for the summer and decided to write down some beliefs before going to keep them in mind on my trip. Here they are, feedback welcome.

The 5 Faces of Man

The Hero

-         Keep a cool head under all circumstances. The world will always back your positive actions, never your negative reactions.

-         Loneliness makes you treasure company; popularity makes you treasure solitude.

-         Your instincts are always…

The American Professional Football Association took the name of the National Football League on this day in…

The United States Secret Service was created to investigate crimes related to the United States Treasury on this day in 1860.…

6/22/2011

I know that I have started this blog a bit late but the events that I am about describe have set in motion a series of discussions and many thoughts.  I have needed time sort through them all. 

6/19/2011.  Father's Day. 

On what should have been a day of celebration and thanks for a my dad, a man who I could have learned a lot from but have usually eschewed the lessons that he wished to teach, was a day of personal…

The only known moon of Pluto, "Charon", was officially discovered this day in 1978 by astronomers James W. Christy and Robert S. Harrington.…

Lou Gehrig bid farewell to baseball due to illness on this day in 1939.…

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Sunday, Father's Day, was the Big Game day; the 19th century baseball club supposedly forming in our town's first game.

There was one little problem: I don't know how to play baseball.

Well, I do in theory, but the last time I played was during my summer camp days, when I would roast in the outfield because that is where they put me, long decades ago (the 70s).

I abhorred other sports I was forced to play, but for some reason I loved baseball, even though I was…

• Beach hot is a different kind of hot. It’s a sneaky kind of hot that only ends in sunburns, but it sure is nice.

• I have to get healthy for some very specific reasons:

• My chest was in the background and my wife’s first thought was not “manly”, but “I can edit that out.”

• I look like a pasty extra from the fat people…

Here is a link to a special "FATHER'S DAY" program I was asked to do on a popular W. Coast talk radio show.

http://kcnr1460.com/media/podcasts/Alana_Burke/Alana_Burke_2011-06-17.mp3

During the show, we talk a bit about my book 'The DOORWAY Buck'... and a great deal more about FATHERHOOD and 'Father's Day':

1.  What it IS (and is NOT)

2.  From a son's…

Defining Core Values

Today, after lots of thinking and meditating, I came up with my five Core Values for day one of being a better man. 

Here they are, prioritized, and explained:

1.) Family & Friends - (respectively) When a situation comes up, or a…