Patrick Horne

Setting New Year’s Resolutions and then quickly abandoning them within the first week is a timeless tradition almost on par with watching youtube videos of people dropping frozen turkeys into fryers during Thanksgiving. We gorge ourselves on cookies and pies and all sorts of great delicacies over the Christmas Holiday only to realize what a…

How much of what we do over the Christmas Holidays is done only because we did it the year before and every year before that? Do you still go to the same Christmas parade? Take your kids to the same place to see Santa? Eat the same foods on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day? Christmas…

It’s been a while since my last post and all I can say is that fatherhood takes not only a great deal of time to successfully accomplish, but it also uses up a good bit, if not all of a person’s brain power. A lot has happened in the last several years and I’m excited…

Today was a day that I hoped would never come.  A day in which a pact was broken and war was waged upon any tiny creature within reach of my foot.  You see bugs and I have always had a mutual understanding, we’ve lived in harmony for thirty-four years without much provocation by one side or…

Social norms, as best I can remember in my college studies, are unspoken rules that determine how we act in the good graces of everyone around us.  They’re the guidelines that separate the socially acceptable from that one guy in everyone’s town that aimlessly wanders around carrying a jar of grape jelly, whom he has…

I could easily be accused of being a creature of habit.  Typically around lunch time, I’ll have at the most three restaurants that I’ll go to, where I’ll choose one of three different items on their respective menus.  I’m not sure if you’d chalk this up as being an obsessive compulsive nut, but so what. …

Today I decided what better way to embarass myself, but to write a blog.  Not sure how much or how little I’ll contribute to this, but I imagine it will depend mostly on my threshold of humiliation.  See no matter where I start with either a conversation or a facebook post or any other form…