According to the TV weather dude, it has rained here on 16 of the 18 days so far this month.  To be honest, I’m not sure we’ve missed even two days!
We did manage to get the garden planted one day between the showers, and the tomato, pepper, and radish plants are all looking good.  The […]

It’s official:  I’ll be teaching Journalism classes at West Liberty State College and advising the campus newspaper beginning with the fall semester.
I just got off the phone with the Provost, who made the offer which I happily accepted.  It’s full time, so I’ll be getting full benefits as well.  And while I’ll have the option […]

Well, it’s out of my hands now.
I feel pretty good about today’s interview, but I was really wiped out by the time I got home.
Things started out a little rough.  Apparently, there was some confusion over who was supposed to be where and when, so the search committee was waiting for me at one end […]

I’m officially in full-blown fret mode right now.
My schedule for Monday’s trip to the college is looming large.  First, I meet with the search committee and dean.  After lunch, I’ll deliver a 30-minute lecture to a group of students and faculty, then it’s a campus tour (they’ve added a few new buildings since I graduated), […]

We’ve been having some incredibly nice weather around here for the past week or so, and it’s beginning to affect people.
On my way to church this morning,  I passed I don’t know how many yard sales, and there was a lot of nice stuff!  I saw clothes, glassware, two big bookcases, a couple of exercise […]

My neighbor Marisa is the best thing since sliced bread. No, really, she is!
I spend almost as much time in her kitchen drinking coffee in my jammies as I do in my own. Belle the pit bull doesn’t even bark when she hears me walking around to the back door anymore. She […]

My butt’s asleep, so why not the rest of me?
It’s just after 4:30 in the morning. I’ve had this laptop on my legs for six hours now. I have to meet with half of my students for individual conferences in nine hours to offer them reasonably coherent comments about their performance to this […]

The things you see when you’re driving up the road without enough death insurance!
First, the construction crews are out in force around here. Flaggers alert us to people who are filling potholes, trimming tree branches away from power lines, digging ditches to clear the storm drains, and fixing utilities. The thing is, though, […]

It’s time to stop whining about the weather and get outside to play a little bit.
This afternoon, BJ and I went out to work on getting the garden ready to plant.  We have a small raised bed that’s separated from the yard with three or four courses of stacked bricks.  We took it all apart, […]

It’s been a year now since the slaughter at Virginia Tech. Six and a half years have passed since 9/11. I rarely think anymore of that early morning at the radio station when two of my employees were standing in the middle of Main Street, butt naked, being hosed down by the fire […]