LINCOLN, NE -- After the customary Sunday morning respite at church, headed the 195 miles north and west to Nebraska -- knocking one more state off my list ( Read more... )

OVERLAND PARK, KS -- This morning, we forewent the customary complimentary breakfast for breakfast at a McDonald's atop I-44, 60 miles outside of Tulsa. (However, due to the rising sun, our alternate seating area had an obscured view of the traffic ( Read more... )

TULSA -- This trip is more drive-intensive than usual. Today's ride went from Fayetteville to Oklahoma City to Tulsa -- 350 miles as the Google flies.

After dropping by the University of Oklahoma -- and sneaking a peek from atop the football stadium's press box -- we drove into Oklahoma City. Chad nixed IHOP for lunch; instead, we took a turn at ( Read more... )

Was it really just a month ago when Chad and I were in New York?

Well that means it's been four weeks since:
The 9am DC-NY shuttle taking off after 10... Fleet Week... The water-main break on River Ave in front of Yankee Stadium... The rain delay at the Mets game, and spotting the new Miss America on the field... Closed bookstores at both St John' ( Read more... )

BROOKLYN CENTER MN -- Today was easily the funnest day of it all as I caught up with an old friend ( Read more... )

Chad decided to schedule his kidney stone-ectomy five days before we left on vacation ( 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... )

After fighting a sore throat that reappeared with each swing of the temperature pendulum over the last several weeks, I think I'm 100%. But that leaves a backlog of thoughts:

"The Little Match Girl" (12/12)
Andersen re-do
By local troupe, with snacks and
TSO music"I'll Be Home For Christmas" (12/19)
Nearby church stages
pre-Pearl Harbor musical
with ( Read more... )

Chad is part of the uneducated masses who believe that Obama is a Muslim.
I can't blame it on him going to Marshall, though; I'm pretty sure that she knows ol' Jeremiah Wright is a preacher, not an imam.

The shark in mid-meal during trick-or-treat? That was a fellow parishioner's grandson.I asked Betty Joyce why I only saw Dixie with Addison and ( Read more... )

As Chad and I exited the stadium after yet another WVU win over Marshall, he spotted our friend Carrie in one of the tailgates. (I was scanning ahead, making sure nobody stumbled over Chad or vice versa, so I barely noticed ( Read more... )