Today I made an old man cry. And it made me happy ( Read more... )

I know I haven't been the best at being a good blogger around these heah parts, so you'll have to excuse me for being busy, confused, angry, happy, uptight and introspective lately, even if that might all be in the span of ten minutes. Things seem to change abruptly with little notice. So far, most of the news regarding Jeff's parents and the fire ( Read more... )

Soooo. I'm minding my business here, blogging, chopping music into little snippets and I hear a siren pass the house. Not common, still, it's unusual. A moment later, another. I peek out the door down the road and see emergency vehicles convening near the end of the street. Does not look serious, no flames, smoke or anything I could see, probably ( Read more... )

Got some bad news yesterday. A fire in Jeff's hometown of Trevorton, PA took five lives. And in what is typical in small towns (Trevorton has about 1500 townsfolk) the people who lost their lives were friends of Jeff as well as his nieces. Yeah, everyone knows everyone in these small, old-fashioned towns, unlike the cold interchangeability of ( Read more... )