After my station in DC flipped formats, Corri and I decided to postpone the next job and return to Los Angeles - the city where we met and fell in love 4 years ago (I won't bore you with details, but you can bore yourself by CLICKING HERE) The move from East to West Coast turned into a cross-country, month-long road trip with a 2-year-old! Most of the travel time was just me and the rugrat - which I anticipated would allow us a max of 11 to 13 miles a day. Throughout the tri

Today was National Fire Service Day... ..that's what inspired this post to be written, but when I sat down in front of my computer, I realized the theme of heroes comes back to a much earlier-influence in my life. My dad was a police officer when I was growing up. There may have been (many) moments in my teenage years when I didn't respect his rules - curfews sucked; the code to unlock cable channels he'd blocked on our satellite dish was always his birthday; when Alece M. f