Present Right Now

One of the things that I have adopted (or has adopted me) since getting married are some of my wife's friends that I never really met before: Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie,  Natalie Morales, Al Roker, Willie Geist, Carson Daly (we were already buddies from MTV and his talk show), Tamron Hall, and, I get a sickly feeling admitting this, Hoda Kotb and Kathy Lee Gifford (but it's only sometimes though, ya know, when I'm hanging with everybody else and they show up and I just kind of linger around for a few minutes after everyone else leaves, because, ya know, they're more like acquaintances really...ummm...) Photo credit: http://www.today.com/ Yes. The Today Show has become part of my morning ritual. I show up for the news and end up staying for the fun. I mean come on, they're just such a great, jovial group of goobers to start your day with, ya know?  Anyway, the reason I'm writing this confession is to highlight the 2014 Today Show Yearender vid...

Traveling southbound along the curved expressway in between lush, almost mountainous, green hills, the feeling of anticipation becomes arresting. Despite all attempts to catch a premature glimpse, its breathtaking sight evades the eye. Closer and closer the car coasts downhill around each bend toward cavernous Waldo with nary a hint of what is about to be seen. Suddenly, upon emergence of the dimly-lit tunnel, like the monster in a well-paced monster movie, that orange sentinel of man's industrial and technological revolution appears with guardian-like authority and presence: The Golden Gate Bridge.                                                              ________________________________ Photo credit: ggb113b.wordpress.com/ This paragraph illustrates what it has been like to live in San Francisco. I have found this lands...