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Summer Things

  • Sunshine
  • Tan lines
  • Wide brimmed hats
  • Green grass
  • The sound of a lawn mower
  • Oceans, rivers, lakes, ponds
  • The smell of salt water
  • Sand on the floor mats
  • Children laughing
  • Scooters and bicycles
  • Hide and Seek
  • Campfires
  • S’mores
  • Sleeping in a tent with the rainfly open to the stars
  • Road trips
  • Naps
  • Hot air
  • Cool nights
  • Pine forests
  • Music playing from someone’s house
  • Trailers with boats
  • Long days
  • Sunsets
Favorites, Memories, Work

Interesting Things I’ve Done In My Job

  • Hired Parachuting Elves
  • Been part of a German documentary
  • Hosted 20,000 people in my town for one day
  • Spoken at City Council meetings
  • Led bus tours for hundreds of tourists
  • Received private tour of authentic Dutch windmill
  • Received private tour of St. Boniface Catholic Center
  • Received private tour of Clinton Historical Society Museum
  • Lived in a historical mansion
  • Learned how influencer marketing works
  • Been able to write multiple newspaper articles
  • Gone on ride-alongs with the Sherriff
  • Sat in on strategic planning sessions with the city
  • Been appointed by the Iowa governor to a national commission
  • Saw the Peabody ducks march in
  • Toured the Field of Dreams
  • Greeted people from stage at a music festival
  • Secured a VIP box for another music festival
Favorites, Work

Amazing Things About My Office

  • The giant windows
  • The original brick walls
  • The fireplace
  • Open space big enough for my giant calendar
  • The plants
  • The sunshine
  • The large window sills that serve as shelves
  • The closet that is a safe
  • The ability to see outside
  • Not just one window but three
  • Seeing everyone who walks by
  • The extra storage closet
  • The thermostat
  • Did I mention the windows?
Events, Family, Favorites, Inspirational, Memories

Thirty Amazing Things About My Son Who Turns 30 Today

  • He is deeply empathetic and genuinely cares about people
  • He’s a super involved father
  • He understands science and math and the world on a conceptual level
  • He isn’t afraid to speak up for someone who needs it
  • He accepts everyone exactly as they are
  • He is married to his highschool sweetheart
  • He always says sweet things about her when she isn’t around
  • He is adventerous
  • There isn’t a food he won’t try
  • While visiting somewhere new, he refuses to eat at any restaurant he could go to at home
  • He’s an excellent cook
  • He reads to his daughters
  • He loves his grandparents and communicates with them regularly
  • He’s calm under pressure
  • He never went through a “my parents embarrass me” phase
  • On a group outing at the age of 10, he saved his sack lunch to give to the homeless man we’d passed on the way there
  • He’s always been my video game buddy
  • He is super creative
  • His skills as a D&D DM rival those of any fiction novelist
  • He is musical
  • He has a freaky good ear for sounds and tones and can hear things nobody else can hear
  • For example, if he hears loose change drop on the ground, he can tell you exactly how much it is
  • He can fix things
  • His sense of humor cracks me up
  • He is kind
  • He has the ability to look beyond the surface level of any given situation
  • He has a broad perspective of life in general
  • He loves his family with everything in him
  • He memorizes random and ridiculous things
  • He is the best kid ever (except for Jesus)

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