This post was written by P Ling, who is a travel writer for Uptake and also runs the Triphow blog.A ‘Kamaaina’ in Hawaii is someone who is a native or has lived in Hawaii for a long time. President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu and spent most of..
Topics: Banter, community, family, guest post, travel

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It has been a long year of hard work for both of my kids in pursuing their passions, but they are each about to pursue the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.PONY ThunderThe passion that drives my oldest son is baseball and his pot of gold is the PONY.
Topics: Banter, Cars, family, inspiration, life

{"title":"Good Luck Storm Dance Alliance And PONY Thunder","post_url":"http:\/\/dereksemmler.com\/2009\/06\/26\/good-luck-storm-dance-alliance-and-pony-thunder\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/dereksemmler.com\/feed\/","author":"mnc","date":"2009-06-26 09:45:02","summary":"It has been a long year of hard work for both of my kids in pursuing their passions, but they are each about to pursue the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.PONY ThunderThe passion that drives my oldest son is baseball and his pot of gold is the PONY."}

Wow, I cannot believe it has been roughly five months since I stepped away from the day to day activities of running multiple blogs. While I have been away, there has certainly been a lot that has transpired - some good and some not so good.The...
Topics: Banter, blog, community, life, relationships

{"title":"Did You Miss Me?","post_url":"http:\/\/dereksemmler.com\/2009\/06\/19\/did-you-miss-me\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/dereksemmler.com\/feed\/","author":"mnc","date":"2009-06-19 09:45:07","summary":"Wow, I cannot believe it has been roughly five months since I stepped away from the day to day activities of running multiple blogs. While I have been away, there has certainly been a lot that has transpired - some good and some not so good.The..."}

It was two years ago that Derek published his first post here.As I skimmed over the posts he has made here over the time, I am amazed on how much Derek has kept up his blog to what it is now, how far he has come. It gives me inspiration that maybe one...
Topics: Banter

{"title":"Happy Birthday, Derek Semmler dot com!","post_url":"http:\/\/dereksemmler.com\/2009\/03\/08\/happy-birthday-derek-semmler-dot-com\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/dereksemmler.com\/feed\/","author":null,"date":"2009-03-08 19:33:09","summary":"It was two years ago that Derek published his first post here.As I skimmed over the posts he has made here over the time, I am amazed on how much Derek has kept up his blog to what it is now, how far he has come. It gives me inspiration that maybe one..."}

Is customer service alive?Let me clarify that…..is good, helpful customer service still alive?Some say yes, while others may say no.I am going to share with you a couple of stories on how Customer Service is dying and how it is still alive and...
Topics: Banter, Interweb

{"title":"Customer Service and YOU","post_url":"http:\/\/dereksemmler.com\/2009\/03\/06\/customer-service-and-you\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/dereksemmler.com\/feed\/","author":null,"date":"2009-03-06 20:43:35","summary":"Is customer service alive?Let me clarify that…..is good, helpful customer service still alive?Some say yes, while others may say no.I am going to share with you a couple of stories on how Customer Service is dying and how it is still alive and..."}