Jerry Loggins

I’ve been asked to speak at a local school that is having their “career day” in a couple of months about finding your own niche.  I have to say that I have mixed emotions about doing that, so I’ve told them that I’d think about it.  After all, it’s not like I’m one of those famous celebrity speakers or motivational speakers that get on the circuit of speaking engagements and get paid big bucks for their speeches!  I’m not even really comfortable speaking in front of large audiences!

So I’m going to be doing some research on getting some good speaking tips to help me figure out what to say and do.  My wife says she’ll help me by being my audience while I rehearse my speech.  She told me to write my speech down, and to rehearse it on our video camera and then play it back to see how I’m coming across.  I think that will help a lot!  Isn’t technology wonderful!

I’ve been seeing a lot of strange looking bugs lately that I’ve never seen before. My wife told me that they are called stinkbugs! I’ve never heard of stinkbugs, and told her that she was nuts. But wouldn’t you know it, she went online and went to google’s images and typed in stinkbugs and the pictures that came up sure were stinkbugs! Well, it seems that these critters won’t damage our house, but will damage plants. And if you squish one it will stink so bad that you’ll wish you hadn’t! And apparently the stink lingers. I don’t know how long it lingers, but I guess I’m not willing to squish one and find out for myself.

Sometimes I’m really glad to be a man. Men’s fashions just don’t seem to change as often as women’s fashions change! I’m always flabbergasted when my wife opens the door to her closet, which is jam packed with clothes and hear her wailing “I’ve got nothing to wear!”

When I increduosly ask her “how can that be?” she will start to pull clothes out from the closet, explaining that because she has gained weight that she now needs a women’s sizes instead of misses sizes. Of course I have no idea what the difference is between women’s sizes and misses sizes, so I just stare at her blankly. Or maybe I stare at her with the “deer in the headlight” look of fear that she is going to be buying new clothes!

We are supposed to be hosting several holiday parties this winter, and she is already talking about trying to find the perfect holiday outfit to wear that will be comfortable and practical, yet pretty. I’m not sure there is such a thing!

I have been very saddened by the troubles that seem to be plaguing the students of Virginia Tech! The latest trouble is a missing young lady who appears to have been abducted. When the news first hit and the police were saying that she did not have her identification or cell phone I just assumed that meant that they found her purse somewhere – like lying in a parking lot. Turns out this morning that I was right. I hope that the parking lot had security cameras that recorded what happened and that leads to her safe return to her parent. What a terrible nightmare! How can parents even let their kids out of their sight anymore?  It’s a scary world out there!