February 24, 2009 – 11:34 am
We’ve been visiting a local church and the boys are really clueless. Both Colin and Evan have eaten breakfast, but as soon as they walk into the foyer, they are eying the food (”refreshments”) on the church-length folding table. Last week, the church had a special part in their service for those who wanted to [...]
February 10, 2009 – 8:46 pm
The events of the past weekend and culminating at noon yesterday has left me a bit smug. And it really has more to do with the people talking about the event rather than those who were actually there. See, President Barack Obama came to Elkhart, Indiana and held a nationally televised town-hall meeting in Concord [...]
February 4, 2009 – 2:39 pm
Some call me “obsessed.”
I’m growing tired of people talking about my coffee. Honestly, it’s none of your business how much coffee I drink or what variation I have in my venti cup. Perhaps a couple of times a week, some yahoo will conclude “You’re obsessed with coffee, you know?”
It’s taxing, these little conversations or pronouncements [...]
September 22, 2008 – 7:40 pm
My father-in-law remembers it differently. He says that our first meeting was cordial and friendly and I tell him that his memory is a bit slippy. First, he should have remembered that Paul Hickey and I borrowed his Sony Micro Cassette recorder and hit “Record” and said some just plain silly things. We thought we [...]
It looks like Utterz has just updated its services and has focused its site around discussions (no more Cow theme?). I think Utterz has always emphasized this, but the recent facelift (and the changing of its calling menu) seems to be a clearer presentation in positioning itself as the Audio/text/video place for communication around topics [...]
Hint: It’s really simpler than you think.
Let me tell you a story:
It begins yesterday when I’m listening to simply the best version of “Mack the Knife” (Sinatra and Buffet) in my 1993 Ford Escort Wagon heading north on US 33 South toward school. If you remember this version (and probably like other versions) there’s [...]
I thought it was quite humorous too. It had been a day that began with me being slightly hostile toward…well, a few things: being moved to another room so my classroom could be used for retesting of the ISTEP and a faculty meeting that had me say some things that ran contrary to most of [...]
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Also posted in Belief, Boys, Coffee Stains, Indiana, chess, education
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Tagged chess, coercing, Evan, ISTEP, PlayStation, tuesday
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February 26, 2008 – 2:04 pm
And this is not a rant against not getting the Lilly Endowment for not granting my proposal “Writing a blank canvas: Arctic Canada and Northern Indiana” (There is little distracting about the landscapes of Nunavut, Canada and Northern Indiana. But in writing about place, I plan on crafting an non-fiction essay about the vast beauty [...]
February 20, 2008 – 7:19 pm
Tonight the 7-year-old informed me that Mom said “We could get a four-legged guinea pig” and I told him that his mother “wasn’t right in the head.”
He thought that was funny and went and told Mom what I said and she laughed.
Don’t try and read into the 7-year-old’s compound adjective of “four-legged,” I think he [...]
