By admin on Nov 12, 2008 in Family, Personal Growth | 1 Comment
As I write this tonight, the stock market has taken another plunge, the government is debating a bailout of the auto makers and gloom and doom seems to be coming at us from every direction. The dire financial news of today is likely to become the dire financial news of tomorrow and quite frankly for [...]
By JohnB on Nov 4, 2008 in Family, Helpful Habits, Opportunities to save the world | 1 Comment
“I’m going to the store, can I get anyone anything?” That’s how most Mrs. Gravocks visits to our house started when I was younger. It seems that even though we think of our youth as a “simpler time in life”, people were always on the run. The difference however was that they announced it ahead [...]
By JohnB on Aug 8, 2008 in Family | 0 Comments
I have cause today to sit back and reflect a little bit upon the course my life has taken to this point and what I have accomplished thus far in my life. At first glance it appears to me that I have not really accomplished much. If I were to die today, what would my [...]
By JohnB on Aug 1, 2008 in Family, Government | 0 Comments
If you’ve read my recent posts then you know that I spent a day in Washington, D.C. visiting my to oldest children at their school recently to celebrate my sons induction into the schools student government as the President of the Class of 2010. With the focus of our visit being a pseudo-political event, I may [...]