PASCO WA -- My original intention was to hit the 8:30 service at Brown's Point UMC, which overlooks Tacoma, and then an 11:00 service at Auburn's First UMC with Chad in tow. However, summer services at Brown's Point instead start at 9:00, which was too little time to return, pack everything up, and be there by 11:00. So instead, I looked in the ( Read more... )

JAMESTOWN NY -- Given schedules and locations, I was able to cobble together a two-city, day-night doubleheader. But with the noon game being in Erie, I made the choice to spend the night before at our aunt's house in Morgantown before driving the remaining three hours north ( Read more... )

COLLEGE PARK MD -- I referenced my familiarity with Martinsburg and Chad's wheelchair-tire troubles yesterday, so I easily found the local bike shop. I was quite surprised to find a penny-farthing at the entrance. (A penny-farthing is one of those old-timey bicycles with a humongous front wheel.) Again, the bike shop couldn't immediately help -- ( Read more... )

BREAKING BRADALBUQUERQUE -- Despite getting a hotel near the Pittsburgh airport for a 5:50am takeoff, my underlying fear of oversleeping led me to eye the alarm clock reading 3:06 and thinking, "Yeah, close enough ( Read more... )

SAN ANTONIO (3/28) -- Work, work, work. And then...
Pretty much a blah evening. I ran up to Luby's cafeteria for dinner, where I had... are you kidding me?... a LuAnn Platter. The dish (half-entree with vegetables) preceded the character on the Texas-based King of the Hill, which in tribute, included the re-named "Luly's".

(3/29) -- Work, work, ( Read more... )

NEWARK -- First stop this morning was Greenwich Village, where I stopped by Waverly Place. No wizards, alas, but there is a corner restaurant... that only takes cash. In lieu of my paper shortage, I just had a hot tea, then headed uptown to Penn Station and did the Starbucks thing ( Read more... )

Ed. note: Composed last night.

FORT LAUDERDALE -- Most of this day was spent at home in the valley, as our flight didn't leave until 6.

Things took a curious turn when we found he-who-cannot-be-named-in-Morgantown getting off the plane in Charleston that we were going to take back. And as Alice would say, it got curiouser and curiouser as I found ( Read more... )

These ten questions originally came from a French series, Bouillon de Culture, hosted by Bernard Pivot. They're better known as the questions that James Lipton asks every guest at the end of Inside the Actors Studio.

1. What is your favorite word? "evanescent"
2. What is your least favorite word? "hopeless"
3. What turns you on creatively, ( Read more... )

First, two disclaimers:
(1)I am not a Letterman fan. I just don't feel like watching a cranky old man cracking wise at a musician at 11:30. (I could play the piano for Dad and get the same feeling.) Only he and Seinfeld have thumbs down on my TiVo ( Read more... )

I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here?

No they're not, and please -- leave 'em there.