Derek Coward on May 30th, 2010

This video was originally posted to YouTube, but for some reason, YouTube decided to strip out all of the sound. As you can tell, there is no music in the background (at one time, they were allowing videos to be posted but they removed all of the music from there, even incidental music that had […]

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Derek Coward on May 30th, 2010

This video was originally posted to YouTube, but for some reason, YouTube decided to strip out all of the sound. As you can tell, there is no music in the background (at one time, they were allowing videos to be posted but they removed all of the music from there, even incidental music that had […]

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Derek Coward on May 4th, 2010

I have been putting actual content in my test messages and this is no exception. This is a picture of my granddaughter. One that I don’t think I have posted before. Isn’t she a cutie?

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Derek Coward on March 2nd, 2010

Hint: Not me.

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Derek Coward on August 23rd, 2009

Yesterday Stephen had a shared birthday party with his cousin Mya, who is a year older. It was at Chuck E Cheese’s and it was a pretty good time. I was tired so I found one spot and stayed there until I was told we had to move out of the party area and head […]

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Derek Coward on July 25th, 2009

Keeping with the tradition of me posting birthday wishes late, my oldest child Jaymie turned 27 this week. That makes me feel older than all the aches, pains and gray hairs combined. But that’s a good “old” feeling. She has always had the uncanny ability to make me feel old for no reason. Once I […]

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Derek Coward on March 4th, 2009

OK, I am a pretty bad grandfather. My first (and so far only) grandchild had her 1st birthday on March 2, 2009. Unfortunately, last year when I added her birthday to my various calendars, I put down March 3. So not only was a day off, but then I turn around and forgot to put […]

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Derek Coward on November 29th, 2008

This is a picture of my grandmother, my granddaughter Gabryale, my daughter Jaymie, my mother and me.  It was taken by my other daughter Jazmyn on Thanksgiving 2008.  I have no idea why it was datestamped 6/16/2007. This was the first time that Gabryale had met my mother and grandmother. At first she didn’t want […]

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