You know you're getting old when you start reading the obits on a regular basis ( Read more... )

This is really long, and mostly me archiving some of what I’ve been reading in the past couple of weeks and months. And by “long” I mean 12 pages in Word. I’ve got the complete text of a couple of articles in here, because things disappear off the web. I don't even think I'm going to bother properly formatting it.

I will not be offended of folks ( Read more... )

Way back in middle school (I think it was seventh grade?) we had a girl in my school whose family was from France. She wasn’t exactly an exchange student, but she kinda was. Her father had been transferred to the states for a year for work (I think he was at IBM, but I could be mis-remembering, it was a long time ago). At any rate, my whole ( Read more... )

On Wednesday an alum posted an (early online edition) article about another sexual assault case at the Academy. This time involving two students, one of whom was a popular male athlete, and his victim, who suffered panic attacks for months after the encounter. TL;DR, the school did not report the case to the police, one of the school ministers ( Read more... )

I’ve been reading the writer John Scalzi’s blog off and on for a while now. And I finally added it to my RSS feeds recently. He posts every day, but he doesn’t always write every day. He has this cool feature, called The Big Idea, where he lets other writers pimp their new novels in his blog. They write a short blog post about the big idea ( Read more... )

Saturday I had sort of spur of the moment plans to head back to Exeter for the “Goodbye to the Cage.” After 90 years they’re tearing down the old dirt-floored Academy Field House with the wooden track around the second floor. The one that I remember smelling like dirt, sweat, and despair (that last part was probably the wrestling room). It’s a ( Read more... )

Yesterday felt like an eventful day, in a weird sorta way ( Read more... )

I’m finally caught up on Live Journal after getting terribly behind again this week. Sorry I’ve been scarce around here folks, but I’ve been spending way too much time over on Facebook reading long threads on the alumni group as we all process the sex scandal at my alma mater.

*sighs* We’re now up to three teachers during my tenure at the ( Read more... )

It occurred to me that there were two sets of virtues, the résumé virtues and the eulogy virtues. The résumé virtues are the skills you bring to the marketplace. The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love ( Read more... )

So one silver lining to come out of the whole sex scandal at the alma mater was joining three new alumni groups on Facebook. And reconnecting with a couple of people that I went to school with. Including one friend that I'd been searching for, who really was the reason why I survived my freshman year when I thought I was going to flunk out, but I ( Read more... )