So my good friend Cara Meredith asked if I'd write for her blog again. That's still a pretty flattering thing. Granted, its only a blog but if you stink then people surely won't want you back... unless its out of pity. Let's hope that's not it.
After catching up on my be.mama.be reading I felt compelled to put to written words a story for the first time--the death of my father. While I've talked about it oftentimes in conversations and even up front in front of an audience on occassion it was a different feeling altogether. For the first time in a long time I got kind of teary-eyed writing about it.
Please go check it out over here at this direct link:
http://carameredith.com/2014/04/29/the-little-things-you-cant-cry-now-jeff-shankle/
You may notice this post and link are later than the post on Cara's blog. Well, after you write an "(open) love letter" to your wife am I really going to knock it down from the top slot that soon after?
Smacking Cheesecake #21: The Cheesecake Factory uses eggs from chickens crammed into battery cages so small, each hen has less space than a sheet of paper to spend her entire life.
Possible baby names according to preschoolers: Zee-yaa and Vivian
