Covering Stairway to Heaven

Long before Wayne’s World, it was unwrit­ten rule that no one should ever cov­er “Stair­way to Heav­en” by Led Zep­plin. Every­one’s heard it too many times and no one can do it jus­tice, any­way, so what’s the point? Well, if you are going to break that rule and you’re going to do it front of the… Con­tin­ue read­ing Cov­er­ing Stair­way to Heaven

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Thomas Carroll Coleman, Sr. 1918–2012

My grand­fa­ther, Car­roll Cole­man, died this after­noon in hos­pice in Naples, FL. With is wife, Joan, and two of his chil­dren, Kath­leen and James him, he passed peace­ful­ly after a short decline with pneu­mo­nia. His 94 years were a life spent over­com­ing much to achieve the Amer­i­can dream. Grow­ing up dur­ing the Great Depres­sion in… Con­tin­ue read­ing Thomas Car­roll Cole­man, Sr. 1918–2012

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Health Insurance

I hear and read a lot of com­plaints about health insur­ance rates from friends and fam­i­ly. I fig­ured since I had some good news, it was only fair to post it. Our rate are going up in 2013, by around 3.6% by my cal­cu­la­tion. Out of our pock­et, this results in $10 more per month.… Con­tin­ue read­ing Health Insur­ance

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SS Coleman

My father retired from his law prac­tice about a year ago. More recent­ly, he and his wife sold their home and moved west to Arkansas. In this process, he’s been try­ing to both down­size their house­hold as well as get rid of many years worth of office items. My broth­ers went to help clean out… Con­tin­ue read­ing SS Cole­man

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Elections

It does­n’t amount to mak­ing any dif­fer­ence, but as a rule I nev­er vote for a can­di­date who is run­ning unop­posed. Sad­ly, this hap­pens a lot. Many of the races for Con­gress I’ve ever vot­ed in were this way. There was one elec­tion in Rich­mond, Vir­ginia in which I lit­er­al­ly vot­ed for no one (though I… Con­tin­ue read­ing Elec­tions

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A Decade of Us

This post is a tech­ni­cal­ly a cou­ple of days late for our tenth wed­ding anniver­sary, but you can skip all the stereo­types about the hus­band who for­gets that sort of thing. That’s not at all why it’s late. Rather, Angela and I were off on a fam­i­ly vaca­tion and not both­er­ing to post it to… Con­tin­ue read­ing A Decade of Us

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