It's been awhile since my last post and since then, the following things have occurred in my life...

1) I tried to cut my own hair. Not the best of ideas; especially since, according to my wife, I looked like "a mental patient that had escaped from the Ozarks". She was able to help me fix it, but that involved shaving my head and I really miss my hair. It's growing back...but way too slowly for my tastes.

2) My family and I went on a three city tour of Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver. It was great fun and it was definitely the break that we needed from being in Colorado for the last two years with no trips out of the state.

3) I got my first column in the Broomfield Enterprise, our town's newspaper, published. You can read that here... http://www.broomfieldenterprise.com/broomfield-opinion/ci_23854539/mckinney-controversial-materials-can-teach-much-our-children?IADID=Search-www.broomfieldenterprise.com-www.broomfieldenterprise.com

4) My son, Aden, and my daughter, Maggie, turned three and one, respectively. Two parties within two weeks of each other is pretty exhausting.

5) Finally, our portion of the country has been under water for most of the past three days and there have been many people who have been evacuated or stuck in their homes. The sun has just come out, so hopefully, this is the beginning of the end for the bad weather. I guess one of the advantages to living in Broomfield is that we're on a hill. And we have good pizza, too.