Is This Thing Still On?

 I am not sure why but I thought about this blog today and wondered if it still existed and yes it does. It looks like it's been 9 or so years since I updated this thing. Yeah life has changed a lot. In 2018 I lost the greatest man I'll ever know, my dad Larry Liedtke, very unexpectedly and in front of me and my mom and my children of a heart attack. A year later I would have to say goodbye to my wife and the mother of my children Emily. Her death was complicated as was her life and our relationship. I know she'd be proud of our two children Rem and Mady, the two most opposite kids a dad will ever have. They are also my two favorite people on the planet. I also want them to know that they will always be loved more than they will ever know and I couldn't be more proud of them. They'll never learn as much from me as I have learned from them but I hope they take the lessons I tried to impart on them. Nothing means more than family, life is going to knock you down but it's how you get up from that knock down that shows your real character and perhaps the hardest one there is : to live in the present and believe in yourself. Rem 19 and Mady 16 below. Picture is Rem at Frog Pond Farms in Wilsonville, Oregon in October of 2025 and Mady at THE 2026 OSAA State Cheerleading championships were Mady at and her teammates at Mountainside High finished 3rd.