Wow. It’s hard to believe it’s really been a month since I posted anything here, but, well, on the other hand, I have been pretty busy. I’m in Colorado at the moment. That begins to point toward the reasons for my quiet. My month of June was greatly discombobulated by …
The Wife recently introduced me to Tim Minchin, who is, well, brilliant. He’s also an outspoken atheist, a rather well-read intellectual, and occasionally fairly vulgar. Oh, and he’s often very funny. Not sure what it means, though, that the video link she sent along to expose me to Mr. Minchin …
I have a confession to make: I’m in my 30s now, a father twice over, and many years away from midnight college snacks — even if I did extend my college years by a decade or so — yet I still eat at Taco Bell. I know. I know. But …
We’ve been back in Charleston for a couple of days now. The trip to DisneyWorld was absolutely marvelous. I hadn’t been there since high school, and boy have things changed. This was me then, in 1992, standing in front of Splash Mountain in the Magic Kingdom with my Dad: And …
I’m feeling a bit like an episode of “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?” — my life somehow went crazy in these past couple of weeks. The semester came to an end, of course, which is typically a test of a teacher’s sanity. Yet that wasn’t enough this time. …