Yesterday I flew back to the Quad Cities from Baton Rouge. As I'm driving to my apartment about seven miles south of Park View all of a sudden the engine temp goes through the roof and I smell coolant ( Read more... )

I signed the divorce decree three weeks ago and it was signed by a judge the following week. It wasn't a sad day, my main emotion was relief; but it also became an introspective day. I thought about the happy days. I thought about Sean and Kaleigh. I thought about the bad decisions we both made and the hurt we both caused. Hopefully in time ( Read more... )

I've been told by a number of people that just when you thought you were dealing with the end of a relationship, WHAM it would bitch slap you in the face once again. That is what has happened over the last couple of days and unfortunately for her, gretchen_marie bore the brunt of it. I think it stared when Nancy all of a sudden became chatty and we fell back ( Read more... )

Email I wrote to Nancy after an argument tonight. She wanted to know why I didn't send her presents in the name of the kids like she managed to get to me. Ultimately it serves no purpose to send it to her but I want to remember the answer.

When we went out for your birthday this year I got emotional. You later asked why and I said, "I have a ( Read more... )

Kids are here tonight and enviously they are asleep. We celebrated Sean's birthday at my mom's Saturday night even though it's two days before his real birthday. His birthday was going to be celebrated Monday night at a local pizza place (by tradition) but later moved to Nancy's parent's house. No problem, I've been there a thousand times. ( Read more... )