Busy.
We always get so busy. “Stuff” always takes up so much of our time that significant opportunities unfortunately get missed weekly, daily, hourly. Today was not going to be one of those days. We had a lot of cleaning up to do today. Eric came over and helped me break down cardboard boxes [...]
April 25, 2008
Categories: Daniel . . Author: joben . Comments: 1 Comment
He was just an old man.
I was sitting next to Amanda at the doctors office. She was there getting a checkup, its a girl thing that they do to make us guys feel guilty for not taking care of ourselves. I was sitting beside her, supporting her, telling her that she was probably going [...]
April 24, 2008
Categories: Daniel . . Author: joben . Comments: 3 Comments
Define for me, Success.
Wikipedia says that it is an *achievement of an objective/goal, *a level of social success, *the opposite of failure.
Oddly enough Success was also the name of an automobile manufacturing company that boasted a car with a two-cylinder gasoline engine, steel tires (rubber for an extra 25 bucks), and a chain drive. It [...]
April 19, 2008
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: success significance . Author: joben . Comments: 2 Comments
I didn’t know I was poor, as far as I knew my family was “well off”. The question that asks itself is this, is it possible to be poor without knowing it? If you don’t even know that you don’t own something, then does it matter?
I always had food to eat. And except [...]
April 16, 2008
Categories: Poverty . . Author: joben . Comments: 2 Comments
Every once in awhile you spot a kid that you Know is gonna be smarter than your kid, then you go home and try to train your kid to do the same tricks the smart kid was doing. Then you decide that the other kid was probably just a full grown midget in diapers.
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April 12, 2008
Categories: kids . . Author: joben . Comments: 1 Comment
I was getting a drink of water from the tap in the kitchen.
This time i was using a cup because my mom always gave me a hard time for sucking the water right out of the tap, what can i say..i was raised in the jungle. The fruit on the tree outside was getting [...]
April 9, 2008
Categories: death. . Tags: adult tears, death child . Author: joben . Comments: 2 Comments
This is my wife, just before we got engaged….which also happened to be Right after we started dating.
April 7, 2008
Categories: Jomanda . Tags: amanda barkey . Author: joben . Comments: Leave a Comment
Another planting curve ball. Taking it all in stride with Jesse (Zeus) and Reuben Zuidhof.
April 7, 2008
Categories: tree planting . Tags: planting jesse rueben zuidhof . Author: joben . Comments: Leave a Comment
My friend Jay, getting a close shave from Tara.
April 6, 2008
Categories: tree planting . . Author: joben . Comments: Leave a Comment
Amanda said that i shouldnt have written the article about getting published by the Calgary Herald. She said that there is something wrong with starting out a brand new blog with a lie. I just laughed, again…and said “April Fools”, again…haha
round one- Jo-Ben
April 5, 2008
Categories: Book Deal . . Author: joben . Comments: Leave a Comment