When you ask a child what they want to be when they grow up, you’ll usually get a standard answer: doctor, teacher, nurse, fire fighter, police officer, or whatever mom and dad do for a living. They usually base their future profession around the adults in their immediate world who treat them well and who they look up to. It’s the same for Carson Kight. Only for this 4 year old from Colorado Springs his hero isn’t from the list…
Jason Brown was the star center for the St. Louis Rams not too long ago. He had a $37 million dollar contract and was set to make $12+ million in the final year. He was offered a huge deal in 2012. And, he walked away. The fourth round pick in the NFL draft in 2005 found that his passion laid elsewhere…farming. He studied agriculture for year prior to retirement. Then, he set out to build his own farm. But, he…
Today is World Photography Day. It’s a day to get people who enjoy photography to go out and take some photos. Then, you are encouraged to upload one photograph to their online collection. This is the World Photography Day Gallery for this year: http://www.worldphotoday.org/gallery/ I enjoy participating in this special day. I’ve done so since 2011. Today, my feet were sore from the weekend, so I took photographs in my back yard. I got several of the yellow roses, a…
Warren Hall, part of the Cal State University East Bay buildings, was deemed seismically unsafe. It’s been sitting vacant for a couple of years. Though not a pretty building, it is a landmark. You can see it from almost anywhere in Hayward. This morning the building was blown up. It took about 15 seconds for it to implode. The materials will be recycled and some will be used for construction of the new administration building on the same grounds. The…
I had the pleasure of watching a pitching duel between West (East Lake – Chula Vista, CA) play Great Lakes (Gross Pointe, MI). Both pitchers were tough. It was a pitching duel right from the start. The game wasn’t decided until the Great Lakes pitcher reached the pitching limit and a reliever was brought in. The pitcher from Chula Vista, Grant Holman, had a no hitter going into the bottom of the 6th. He was up against the pitch limit…