There’s a reason there is no 4-day park hopper pass at Disneyland: Three days is enough! Admittedly we didn’t cover everything in the park in our three days there, but nonetheless we were burned out on the crowds, the stress, and mostly the [Read more →]

Here are a few shots from our December vacation to Wickenburg, Arizona and a dude ranch which turned into a chilly vacation filled with food, golf, and horseback riding.

We made the most of our trip to Arizona. Disappointing was the initial weather; nights got down to below freezing. To add to the coolness, winds blew the needles off the cactus. We arrived in a desert wind storm, and I refused to play golf on the first day.

Well we’ve made it through day 1 at Over-stimulation land, and despite all the whining, moaning and complaining from the kids, we ended the day with smiles on our faces, and landed hard on the hotel sheets. The hightlight of my day? Standing on Main Street with the [Read more →]

The Killer girls, and by that I mean the ladies that go by the name of Killer, have been branded by a new vanity license plate. Dad and husband Dave took the Killer approach to labeling his wife and daughters. Much harder to take in is the name on the ultrasound photos of then unborn [Read more →]

The McClelland name is expanding its web presence lately, and I’m pretty sure the McClelland School didn’t have a web site the last time I googled our monicker. This school in Pueblo, Colorado was created in 1905 as a home for [Read more →]

I heard about a new search engine called Ms. Dewey which puts forth an impatient, witty, rather good-looking gal to answer your search inquiries. Ms. Dewey is, at first, cute, funny and whimsical. But soon I felt rushed while [Read more →]

Patrick had his hernia repair surgery early this morning. He went in seeming a bit nervous and then took a sip of zarsed (?) and proceeded to get loopy drunk. No problem there.

The roughly 1-hour surgery wasn’t too trying, at least for me. I put my head against the wall in the waiting room and slept. Lisa on the other hand [Read more →]

We’ve had a few strange visitors to our urban Elk Grove home over the years. If you don’t count family, the friends we’ve invited or the girlfriends they brought with them, we’ve still had at least three worth mentioning, and all of them occur regularly in nature; just not in our neck of the woods. In the last 9 years, one scorpion, and two crawdads made our home [Read more →]

I got an encouraging letter from fraternity brother Vernon Perry who lives in MA. He read the book and wants to send it to his son at Portland newspaper:

TOM:
Just completed your dad’s memoirs. To me, a strking story of a young, American man during a crisis in America. There is no pumped up hero here, just a man who [Read more →]

When KCRA’s Call 3 reporter Lynsey Paulo came knocking on my door camera-man in tow, I chose not to answer, not knowing why they might want to stick a lens and a microphone in my face. In retrospect, I wish I had [Read more →]