The NBA season has begun. Which means — yaaaa, Norm — it’s time for a list. Or, as I prefer to think of it, a post without transitions. NBA vs. baseball. No contest. Glad Kansas City won the World Series. The photos of the parade there, all those baby blue-clad Royals fans — holy criminy,… Read More A list about the NBA
I’ve spent the last seven or eight months wandering through the strange, sometimes exhilarating, often scary world of freelance writing. Like anything (or most things) that have to do with work, freelancing has its good and its bad. It is work that is, blissfully, “location independent” (a term that I learned from the subjects of a piece… Read More The free* life
An update: Friday, a few weeks after he finished his last college application, Luke got his first acceptance. We knew the word was coming down at about 5 p.m. ET. Luke wasn’t going to get home until after the football game that night, and Mary Jo wasn’t about to wait until then. So she jumped… Read More P is for possibilities
Mary Jo points out that a year ago today, Sept. 26, she brought Brodie home. Which seems as good a time as any to post this: This is a picture of our bedroom door. The little mark on it, on the left side, is about 12 years of The Greatest Dog Who Ever Lived butting his… Read More Little remembrances
Not sure why I save some things. Glad I did with this one, though. From Luke, after I left him some candy one day when he was about … who knows? Maybe 4. Or 5? Old enough to know to erase that first extra “o,” though. And add one later, it looks like. That’s my… Read More Scenes from my bulletin board
Luke (and Mary Jo) have finished the college application process. The final group: Georgia Tech Texas Illinois Purdue MIT North Carolina State Clemson Colorado School of Mines Now comes the financial aid paperwork, and then the waiting. By late December (for a couple of them), or early in the year (for the rest of them, Tech… Read More Bald-faced money grabbing
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