Greetings Thought for the Weekend readers! In anticipation of the upcoming weekend, I felt it my civic duty to remind you of one of the most exciting events of each year, happening this Sunday. With the help of Cher, I bring you this very important Public Service Announcement: This Sunday, we get to ‘fall back’ into our beds for an extra hour of sleep! (I told you it was exciting….) If you can’t sleep in, you can spend your hour in other ways. Polls indicate that other than sleeping, the most popular ways to
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Happy Halloween! One of my favorite things about this holiday is that it enables everyone to have a good time. No matter where you’re from, you can find a good neighborhood and knock on doors for candy and a fun scare. Costumes level the playing field where creativity, not cost, determines who looks the best. Recently, I stumbled across some of the most creative costumes I’ve seen in a while. These kids use their wheelchairs or mobility devices as part of their costumes, making some truly next-level outfits that are one-of-a-kind. (Check out Magic
Read more →Halloween weekend is one of the best weekends of the year, if you ask me! Candy by the bucket, costume parties, incredible people-watching, and a great excuse to give everyone a good, fun, harmless scare. In preparation, last weekend my wife asked my daughter, Chloe, and I to go out and grab some Halloween decorations. I couldn’t believe my luck – carte blanche to let my inner Freddy Krueger out to play! Have you seen some of these modern Halloween decorations? Gone are the days of posterboard bats stuck to the wall, or a
Read more →As you probably already know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. It seems the whole world has turned pink in well-deserved support of the lady warriors who fight this devastating cancer. The women in my Birmingham Ladies APA Pool League all know someone who has been affected by breast cancer, and we wanted to make sure we did something too. This month we had planned to do a bake sale with the theme “Everything Must Be Pink!” We were originally just planning to wear our best pink shirts to the sale when an idea
Read more →The Human Fly. Spider-man. Mary Nicholas. The list of superheroes powered by bugs goes on and on. Well, okay – admittedly, we haven’t seen any changes in Mary since her run in with a wasp , but we’ve been monitoring her closely for any new wasp-like powers. I think the flying, stinging sort are on to us, because they came after me, too! Last month, on a Friday, I was doing some maintenance on my backyard pool in preparation for out-of-town visitors. I set the cleaning supplies down hard on a bench, just to
Read more →Pass the coffee, it was a fun, but exhausting weekend. And now, I’m back! This past Friday, I cut out of work a little bit early in order to go on a weekend vacation with a few girlfriends! My cousin and one of our best friends will be meeting up in New Orleans, the Big Easy, the birthplace of jazz. While there, we enjoyed all that the city had to offer – dazzling nightlife, beignets for breakfast, and one very special guest: our favorite musician, Keith Urban! I couldn’t have been more excited. My
Read more →One of the coolest parts of my job is that people often send me amazing trucking videos. What can I say – I’m like a little kid when it comes to seeing big machines do incredible things! And since it’s National Fire Prevention week, this clip couldn’t come at a better time: I was fascinated by this footage of a water bomber putting out a Canadian truck fire. Now, typically, a firetruck is sent in when a truck is at risk for catching fire. But in a remote area like Newfoundland, Canada, where it
Read more →Maybe it’s the first cool breeze in the air (I swear I felt it – in between the humid days and the tropical storms), but I’m already thinking of Christmas. There are only 12 weeks left until Christmas, lest you think I’m getting started too early. Think of it this way – if the Twelve Days of Christmas were all Mondays – we’d only be twelve days out. This kind of thinking is what’s led my husband to develop some coping mechanisms when it comes to the infectious excitement I share with my sons
Read more →By now, almost everyone has heard of Uber. It started as a simple app to request premium black cars in a few metropolitan areas. Now, Uber is changing the logistical fabric of cities around the world. Uber quickly grew into a multinational, multi-billion dollar company as it revolutionized everything from taxi rides to courier service to sandwich delivery. Now, Uber has its sights set on the trucking industry – all part of its master plan to become the world’s largest logistics company. Uber has already started pitching services to shippers, truck fleets and independent
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You won’t believe this story! Was it luck or something greater? A few weeks ago, I talked about how my son Denver and I were planning to participate in our first 5K walk, for a cause very close to our hearts: St Jude’s and the fight against children’s cancer. First and foremost, I want to thank the blog readers who read and donated – we raised over $500 for the fight! I’m so, so proud of the amazing community we have here. I’m also proud to report that Denver and I completed the race
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