Here we go. The start of the big production ( Read more... )

On a Saturday in January, I attended a family party. I spent much of the time in my aunt's kitchen talking with my cousin's daughter, SJ, who is a senior in high school. She was telling me about how she'd gotten a job at a craft store so she could afford the various trappings of senior year, like her music trip to California and prom, and she ( Read more... )

Tuesday ended up being one of those days where nothing got done. My boss was doing his client calls, which is normal, but there's a lot of upheaval this time of year and he called. me. CONSTANTLY. He'd ask me to jot something down to look into it, and before I could get very far, he'd call with something else to look into, and sometimes I'd have ( Read more... )

I ran into my college choir director this week, briefly. After saying hello, he said to me, do you know how many people still bring up the Four Jens Over Texas story? He mentioned one particular choir member, Mike, who wasn't even on the trip yet brings it up (but he was on the Florida trip two years later--he was a freshman that year), but I ( Read more... )

You wouldn't think I have a tie to the Oklahoma City bombing, but a trip I took several years later changed that ( Read more... )

Not everyone could. But it was a fun exercise ( Read more... )

Friday was a busy day. It's homecoming time, and a friend and I made plans to go to dinner and then the concert. With time to kill, I ran a few errands, then worried I'd be late arriving at the restaurant; the line at the store was pretty long (they were having a sale), and then traffic was terrible, but I beat her there by a few minutes ( Read more... )

If I thought I was tired Thursday ( Read more... )

Welcome to the seventh annual have-some-poetry-for-V-Day extravaganza ( Read more... )

I'm always behind in reading our newspapers. While none are daily, we do get at least one paper six days a week. About the only thing I keep current with is Parade magazine, and only because I like to play Numbrix ( Read more... )