Ravings of the All Purpose Glox
The Ravings of the All Purpose Glox
Welcome, Welcome to my den of frothing cappucino foam!
When the sedulous All Purpose Glox has a few farthings
of time to cast into the wishing well of this site, you
will have the opportunity to view life from my two-bit
perspective. All Purpose Glox is one of my alter egos
picked up from a children's book entitled,
"Puck's Peculiar Pet Shop", by author Dean Walley and
illustrator Rosalyn Schanzer. I received this pop-up
book as a gift when I was four and loved it. It has
proved no less attractive to my children as well. As
a father who is highly engaged in the rearing of my
children, my career, and many other areas too diverse
to list in this introduction, I find that I identify
with the comically blue, poly-brachiated Glox.
"Glox darns socks, winds clocks, packs boxes. He walks
and talks and waxes oxes. Glox picks locks and fixes axes.
He can even do your taxes. There are no knacks the Great
Glox lacks. The Glox likes letting you relax!" Though I
must say that I'm not sure I follow Glox's creedo of letting
you relax, I'd like to relax sometimes myself!!!!
I'll post a bunch a various pictures here so you can see snapshots of my life, and of those
who are important to me. I'm still getting the hang of this blogging thing and I'll probably
give you temporal whiplash as I instantly jump from present to various points in the past
and back. Hmm... that's kind of how my mind works anyway, kind of all over the place yet
simultaneously focused on about 5 general areas (which I won't discuss here). Calm and
collected on the outside while internally it's like someone smashed together the library
of congress and Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory.
These are my two little sweeties, Rowan and Holly. This is a 2004 picture but I like it a lot.
I'm buried under kids here, with granddad Ben to the left and my granddaddy Thad to the right. Thad and Mary are my dad's parents; super nice and real "salt-of-the-earth" kind of folks. The Walls are a large family and have touched so many peoples lives in a positive way that's it's hard to comprehend, from boyscouts, mission construction work, to just the plain old daily interactions with other people that most of us take for granted. Unfortunately, since they are my step-grandparents and only entered the picture of my life in 1980, I didn't get very much time to spend with them before I went out into the world and got my own busy adult life started.
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