Living Large In Our Little House

I just returned from a week­end with two of my friends from high school. We caught up with each other two years ago, decided to get together for our first slum­ber party at Campbell Town and have since made it an annual event.

This year, we returned to our native Kansas City, where Lora still lives. We had a fantab­u­lous time; it’s always good to see old friends.

While I was gone, I was largely unaware that a huge inter­na­tional con­tro­versy was brew­ing right in the back­yard of my adopted home.

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The other day, Debra Jordon made a com­ment on the Reducing Stress post on Living Large. Debra lives in a 320-square foot cabin with her hus­band and son (and I’m assum­ing at least one cat, since it is in the video).

Debra shot a video of her home for Fair Companies and the video went viral on YouTube, gen­er­at­ing over 1.1 mil­lion hits at last count.

When Debra posted on Living Large, she was con­cerned about the plethora of neg­a­tive com­ments at YouTube.

I had writ­ten about this type of reac­tion from peo­ple early on Living Large.  I think what Debra and her fam­ily are expe­ri­enc­ing is a com­bi­na­tion of the phe­nom­ena of peo­ple feel­ing the need to judge other’s lifestyle and cyber bullying.

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My dad, Frank Fivecoat, with my brother, Steve

Sunday is Father’s Day, a day to cel­e­brate our dads and thank them for being a part of our lives.

For the bet­ter part of my life, 30 years on July 21, Father’s Day has always been a con­stant reminder that my dad was no longer able to be a part of mine.

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A cau­tion­ary note:  Make sure your computer’s anti-virus soft­ware has a fire­wall that cov­ers malware.

Mine didn’t’.

I hope to be up and run­ning again by Thursday.

Until then, please browse the archives and dis­cover or redis­cover some of your favorite posts on Living Large.