Mike's avatarI was just thinking...

We’ve been on quite a ride, haven’t we? A couple of weeks ago I was checking plane fares for two upcoming trips…a wedding in Arizona and a board meeting in Ohio. I was helping organize a part of our neighborhood service project, looking forward to the start of baseball season, and watching the weeds grow in my backyard because it was too soggy to mow.

Just a normal spring here on the Grand Prairie. And then everything changed. Like. Everything.

People have used words like surreal. Strange. Weird. Scary. A nightmare. But no matter what you call it, it’s our new reality. A least for a while. Maybe a long while.

I said tonight in my “North Point State of the Fam” address, I am an optimist. And not just any old optimist. I’m a glass half full, rose-colored glasses, full on, card-carryiong Pollyanna kind of optimist.

Not that there…

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