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 […]

Well, THAT was embarrassing.
I had some errands to run today, including getting to the bank before it closed, so I was getting dressed to leave when the phone rang.
As I finished the call and dashed out the door, pulling it closed behind me, I realized that my keys were still on the other side.  And […]

Astro the evil psychobird is a music lover!
Our quartet is learning some new music, and I’ve been listening to a few of the numbers online to help with the memorization.  There’s this one song in particular that he really enjoys.
Since I’ve never owned a parrot before, I’m not all that good at reading the subtleties […]

Those of you with a sharp eye will no doubt notice that I’ve done a little pruning to my blogroll.
One of my favorite reads announced the end to his blog awhile back, and now, he’s pulled it down completely.  I miss you, but I can’t justify keeping up a link to nowhere.
A few others were […]

Oops.
We were running low on paper towels, and with four dogs and a parrot, that’s not exactly good.  So I stopped to replenish the supply.
I found an 8-pack of plain white towels on sale at Kroger for $5.99.  With tax, it was $6.35.  Any time I find them for under 80 cents a roll, it’s […]

As my regular readers know, I’m the youngest of five children. We are all very different people. Case in point: my two brothers.
Dave, my younger brother, has always been the daredevil. I could never get away with anything as a kid because Mom and Dad had already seen it from my […]