For regular readers of this blog, you know that I am a fan of reality TV; Survivor, The Surreal Life, and pretty much anything on the Discovery Channel (American Chopper, American Hotrod). Today reality TV became real for me. Sometime in June Michelle and I started watching American Casino, a reality show on the Discovery Channel about the running of the Las Vegas casino, Green Valley Ranch. It was interesting to see all the work [...]

October 1st is one of those dates that changed my life forever. It was 4:00 am in the morning October 1, 2001 and I was taking Michelle to the Fort Wayne International Airport so she could fly to Miami for training to manage Rave Motion Pictures. I had driven her to the airport a few weeks before that so she could fly to Dallas for training, but I had taken a slightly different way. I [...]