Roger A. Caras inspirational dog quote
“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.”― Roger A....
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Read More »40th Birthday
Hello world, So my wife’s birthday was on Sunday, she turned 40…. With this date passing, the only thing left is my own 40th birthday. Six months from now I will leave my 30’s behind, and take a step into the next decade of my life. While this doesn’t bother me I do find myself questioning my own mortality. How many years do I have left, hopefully a lot, but I have already lost one friend to natural causes and that’s SCARY… My kids are little, and I want to see them grow up, I want to walk my daughter down the isle on her wedding day. I want to watch my son do all the things hes going to do, there is still a lot I need to do in this world. deep breath Everything is going to be...
Read More »5 life lessons you can learn from Dr. Suess
Dr. Suess is one of my favorites to read to my kids, I love the way the rhymes roll of my tongue and the inspiration he creates. “To think they found it on Mulberry Street?” is often used for sales departments, while “Yertle the Turtle” & “The Lorax” have real life lessons to be learned. Yertle the Turtle, if I was pressed to pick one, is my favorite story by Suess, the premise is that communist type King Yertle is unhappy with his throne of a stone, and he stacks Turtles to make his view farther. not happy with a “9 turtle stack” he stacks even higher, until the bottom turtle Mack complains and Yertle decides the Stack needs to be higher still. When Mack burps and knocks down the stack, the turtles are freed. The final line of the story goes “And turtles, of course … all the turtles are free / As turtles, and maybe, all creatures should be.” Last night I read my daughter “The Lorax”, ironic that it was actually Earth Day, and while I didn’t plan it, I felt like I did maybe just a small part… They say you need to teach them when their young, haha Two maybe a little too young. So I’ll just continue to teach her. “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” – The...
Read More »15 best movies from the 80s
So what does a group of internet marketers discuss, when they aren’t discussing strategy? The best movies from the 80s of course… and the finalist are, in no particular order… The Breakfast Club The Lost Boys National Lampoons Vacation Fast Times at Ridgemont High Ferris Bueller’s Day off Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back ET Gremlins The Goonies Full Metal Jacket Coming to America Stand by Me Back to the Future Die Hard Terminator These movies reach all genre, and it is impossible to put them into a ranking against each other. They each represent something different, from Action to comedy, they all have their own merits. As a child of the 70s growing up in the 80s they each mean something different to me. I left a few off that should have been here, but mostly because I didn’t get them. Widely acclaimed to be some of the best movies of the 80s, The Shining and A Nightmare on Elm Street are horror films, a genre I could live without. Dramas from this era don’t really do anything for me either, as I was two young to appreciate them them. Driving Miss Daisy, and The Color Purple are both herald of some the greatest movies ever...
Read More »An American wins the 2014 Boston Marathon!
The first time since 1983 Since 1983 the Boston Marathon has not been won by an American, in 2014 Meb Zkeflezighi changed all that. With names of the victims that lost their lives in last years tragedy scribbled onto his bib, Meb won the race in 2 hours, 8 minutes, 37 seconds. Kenya has dominated the race for the last 20 years, with winners 19 times since 1991. However, the USA needed it this year, after the tragedy that happened last year, and fittingly a long time immigrant brought the victory home. Leading the race from early on, the crowds cheered for him from Hopkinton to Boyslton Street, while Steven Tyler and Joe Perry’s tribute “Dream On” (featured below) played in his mind. “Boston Strong, Boston Strong, Meb Strong, Meb Strong.” he kept repeating to himself. He pumped his fist at the sky, kissed the ground three times, and bowed as he started to weep after crossing the finish line. “It was not about me. It was about Boston Strong,” Keflezighi said later, “When the bomb exploded, every day since I’ve wanted to come back and win it.” “As an athlete, you have dreams and today is where the dream and reality meet. I was just crying at the end,” he continued, “This is probably the most meaningful victory for an American, just because of what happened. It’s Patriots Day.” An old man at 39, this win may come as a surprise to many, but dressed in American Red White and Blue, the fans were on his side. The chanted “U-S-A”, and “you got this Meb”. After getting his citizenship in 1998 he ran for the United States in three Olympics, earning silver in 2004. He also won the New York Marathon in 2009, as the first American to do since ’82. Meb moved to America at 12 from the African nation of Eritrea to escape a violent war that was happening there, while he spoke no English at the time, his athletic skill and grades got him a full scholarship to UCLA. 2 hours, 8 minutes, 37...
Read More »The Road Not Taken ~ Robert Frost Quote
This Robert Frost quote means a lot to me, I have read it over 1000 times in my life, and really have tried to set my path or lack there of based upon these words of wisdom. I think I find solace in knowing that I am not the only one out there who beats to a different drum. The fact that Mr. Frost felt this way about blazing his own course sets me at ease in doing the same. The Road Not Taken ~ Robert Frost Quote Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the...
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