Am I turning into Betty Crocker? Last night I had a craving for brownies.  And I’m a huge fan of rewarding my cravings. The problem?  No brownie mix in the Beach Bungalow. Fire Up the Jeep, Dad! I did just that and moments later discovered that my local Safeway store had a ‘Buy One Get One Free’ deal on Duncan Hines Dark Chocolate Brownies! ...

Dear Alaska, It’s been great meeting you.  But I feel it’s time to move on. You see, my heart is growing restless and it longs for my true love. Don’t get me wrong, I do care for you, Alaska. It’s just that I miss my California home by the sea. I miss my teen  and my obnoxiously loyal black Lab. I miss the salt air that greets me...

Revisiting Goals for 2010 In my post outlining my Goals for 2010,  I wrote that I was focusing on three goals for the year: My three goals are located in three separate areas of my life. They are: Business - Develop one of my blogs into a cash-generating entity that will become part of the Barry 2.0 effort to be economy independent within 3 years. This goal is...

Two Thumbs, Way Up! I have to admit I was initially skeptical about the eReaders that began flooding the market a few years ago. The first one I held and played with was Sony’s eReader.  Then an acquaintance, (actually, Ex #1′s husband) got a Kindle and I saw it in action. The clarity was interesting but I still wasn’t sold. Besides, he paid $350...

Single dads look for love. But finding it isn’t always easy. It’s been said that the harder you look for something, the more difficult it is to find.  I believe that. Looking for love is often just this way. We scurry from bar to bar, club to club, date to date and always wonder why we’re not finding the right person. Single dads with half to...

Last year, LE was with his mom on Thanksgiving Day. In an effort to prove that ‘sitting around and moping while your kids are with the other parent’ isn’t the only alternative for solo-dads, I Twittered my day and then blogged about here it a few days later. Here’s a snippet (read the full post here): It reminded me of the Zen...