My Inner Author

Yesterday I had the privilege of watching the Monty Python troupe perform together live for the last time.   The show broadcast live from the O2 theater in London featured the group doing their old classics as well as a few updated skits.   The 10 shows which ran over the past 2 weeks sold out in 44 seconds when the tickets went on sale.  Wow.   The show was a nice homage to their past and a reminder of what they have meant to comedy these past 45 years.   Stephen Frye, Warwick Davis, the Top Gear guys, Mike Myers, Brian Cox (physicist) and Stephen Hawking were also in the show.   In the theater of roughly 200 seats, I do believe I qualified as one of the youngest audience members.   Perhaps 10, at most 20 people could have been younger.   I guess sadly the younger generations have not learned to appreciate the more cerebral British style humor they helped usher into the mainstream during their run. Anyhow, in honor of their farewell, I wanted to list my favorite sketches

Note: I originally posted this to Facebook shortly after having to sadly have the vet put down our beloved gentle giant, Calvin.  I am simply posting it here to for archive purposes. Today as many of you have seen on our Facebook pages, we had to say goodbye to our beloved dog Calvin.  To those who know us, this brief blog will make perfect sense and hopefully for some maybe it will resonate.  Some others, well, they simply won't quite get it.  But that is fine, I am writing this for my own selfish reasons of wanting to give Calvin a bit of a tribute.  He deserves it. In our family, we are really "dog" people.  But more than that, we are family pet people.  And by that I mean, our pets are part of our family.  No, we don't dress them up and give them a $1000 bed to sleep in or carry them around in a doggy purse.  Heavens no.  But, Donna and myself, and now Amanda and Sam as well, we view our dogs as part of the family.  Like most dog owners (I imagine),