Back when I was younger, more naïve and married, I found out that people would pay me to come and stay with them at some swanky resort. This discovery required only a short 90 minutes of my time with no pressure or purchase necessary. I had discovered the Time Share sales pitch.
Read MoreThis summer has brought a plethora of visitors all dragging children along for an outdoor vacation. In case you don't know what plethora means it’s a gaggle, clatch, herd, flock, drove, swarm, pile or, in layman’s terms, a bunch.
The parents arrive with great expectations about all the neat things they are going to do to bond with their children who have been cooped up in the big city for the past year. Things like hiking, fishing, ATVing, and singing around the campfire while toasting marshmallows and making s’mores all swim through their heads like salmon heading upstream.
What actually occurs seems to be a strange departure from when I was growing up and is shocking in fact.
Read MoreAt a very young age I recall thinking that my parents somehow had it in for me by choosing the name “Kevin.”
While you may think this is somewhat of a normal name, it just didn't have the same ring to it as other people with the truly NEAT names. You know ones like Pugs, Clint, Cody, Jesse and other names with a certain historical reference or Hollywood coolness about them.
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