The date was July 6, 2019. Melissa and I had been venturing out farther and farther from home on the bike and enjoying the experience more and more. By this point, we had gotten into a groove of riding together and I was feeling more confident riding 2-up on the Honda VTX 1300. I only […]
Every year, beginning in February, an activity commences that as far as I know, happens nowhere on the planet, other than the North American South. What’s the activity you ask? Well, it is the time-honored tradition of the crawfish boil. There is documentation that the American Indians of South Louisiana baited reeds with deer meat […]
This blog stuff, as totally lame as it may seem to some of you, has been a great deal of fun for me. You will probably never know the hesitation I experienced before hitting the enter key to publish my own words for the first time. I think many of you know that I post […]
This weather has been horrible. Well, not horrible, but it has been cloudy, rainy, overcast and cold. I have not been able to ride my bike to work during the week, or after work for that matter, but I have been fortunate to put in some miles on the weekends. The rain has been a […]
This morning marks 3 full weeks since I announced dbeazylife.com. To date, the posts on dbeazy have been viewed over 1000 times. I am encouraged by these numbers. I had no idea if anyone would check out the site, let alone check it out on a continual basis, so thanks for your support and spread […]
We lived in the country growing up in the ’70s. To live in the country back then was much different than it is today, much different. Besides there being no cell phones, only three TV stations, very few security lights, there was almost no traffic. We learned as boys to drive a 3 on the […]
I tend to get a bit wordy in my posts here, which I realize goes against the norms of the day and time in which we live. Except for certain circumstances, everything I put to text will be in sentence form, with at least an attempt to make it grammatically correct, and free of abbreviations. […]
Here in South Mississippi, the talk for the last few days has been the river. The “river,” for those who don’t know what I’m talking about, is the Pearl River. The river gets its start in central Mississippi and flows through the capital city of Jackson and meanders southward where it becomes the border between […]
I think all of us dads out there often worry that we aren’t able to be that “everything” in the eyes of our children. Work and the day-to-day grind rob us of time and then there is often guilt associated when we go out and do guy things that don’t include them, like a favorite […]
I think everyone whose parents are no longer of this realm, will agree that their influence reaches from beyond the grave. There is hardly a day that passes when I don’t reach down deep inside in search of a pearl of wisdom learned or experienced from one or both of my parents. Just yesterday as […]