Claude's Ventures

 
For Christmas I got myself a Wii and a Wii Balance Board.
I haven’t played any of the Wii games like bowling. I should probably practice up on before I go home on leave next month. My parents are pretty good at these Wii games. Or at least get good enough to beat my nieces and [...]

A few years ago I met this guy name Tom. The next thing I know he is my webmaster. He helped me setup and maintain the WineMakers Guild website. He also helped set up this site as well.

Through the years I’ve got to know this former soldier, his wife Bobbi and their son Grant. For Christmas I [...]

This Christmas was a little different and low key — in Afghanistan and fully back in the military.
Some people tried to bring a little Christmas cheer by decorating. The 82nd band and choir went around performing Christmas tunes. The only Christmas movie I watched was “How The Grinch Stole Christmas.” I took part in a [...]

Hero
Let me be your hero
Would you dance if I asked you to dance?
Would you run and never look back
Would you cry if you saw me crying
Would you save my soul tonight?
Would you tremble if I touched your lips?
Would you laugh oh please tell me these
Now would you die for the one you love?
Hold me in [...]

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling,
how could it be so?
It came without ribbons.
It came without tags.
It came without packages, boxes or bags.
And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before.
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a [...]