Some excellent moments throughout the last week or so. While being sort of marooned away from family was not my first preference for the Easter holiday, I had some chances to make up for that. One highlight was having a good talk with my brother Joe at the beginning of April in celebration of his birthday, reminding me again how after my visit to ( Read more... )

This AP story had me flashbacking to that August with Dave Nutting. I can't believe it's been twenty years. But there we were, just moved in to Mark and April's place at 611 High Terrace, which we were housesitting for the year, gathered around CNN and watching the revolution play out on CNN. I remember grabbing David, who had just returned from ( Read more... )

My journal's been on the fritz for a few days (as has my hot water, but I don't think they're related) and so I'm actually slightly stunned to see my update page load finally, after a few days of desultory attempts. Not all the features seem to be working, but here goes. (I hope I don't lose all this: I hate that.) I've continued to get out a ( Read more... )

Enjoyed two weeks of hospitality from family, with Leslie and Jim being generous as ever in opening their place up for a long stay, with Mom pitching in when they needed their space to host Jim's brother John's family. So I got to enjoy all that time with family, and more competitive Wii than I thought possible with my nieces, while also spending ( Read more... )

Yesterday was one of those brilliant days where just about nothing went according to plan, and that the whole day was far more fabulous as a result. I went in to the University to pick up a book that a student had borrowed overnight and to let a student take a make-up exam. I was only expecting to be there for An hour before heading back to my ( Read more... )

Between getting ready for Midterms, administering them, taking time out to enjoy the company of Jennifer and Gordon while they were honeymooning in New Orleans, and then taking a lot of time out to go up to Chicagoland and see my family over my Fall Break, instead of grading - well, I just have hardly even had time to look at my journal, much less ( Read more... )

12:57pm

Flying over Oklahoma or northern Texas at the moment. I'm making my way back to New Orleans via Houston after the third do-it-ourselves retreat of Fleming's circle: countryside locations outside Nashville, Indiana in late July 2002; Jackson, Wyoming in 2008; and now Eureka Springs, Arkansas in 2010. I'll probably need a few entries, at ( Read more... )

More packing. I'm coming to hate the library that I've built up over these years. Cutting down so many of the books from what I'll be taking with me, putting them into storage to save me the cost of moving them twice in the space of a year - it's all very sensible, but just the sheer awkwardness of them in this situation, and the worry and ( Read more... )

After four months, Angie's A Year of Letters project is still going strong, as recounted in her blog of the same name. We got to talking briefly last night in a few notes about unexpected problems of blogging and writing. One thing both of us mentioned, more the other day, when we saw one another for the LOMC mini-reunion, was just the struggle ( Read more... )

It's been a long week, but a week that just kept showing me over and over how outrageously blessed I am in the love of friends.


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