This is Austin, Texas, where I'm still alive, and hoping you are same.  There is much to talk about and discuss, but here's is what they call in baseball parlance "the boxscore ( Read more... )

I'm waiting for the oven to warm up, so I can make my bride-to-be cinnamon rolls for brekkie. So far, the travel stuff is sorting itself out. Carrie and Alex (Sarah's bride's maids) arrived okay yesterday, as did my mom. Today we get Sarah's mom and Josh! So, while I'm waiting for the "click" of the oven, some stuff that I need to get off my ( Read more... )

This is Austin, Texas, a fact of which you will all be painfully aware in a matter of a few days ( Read more... )

This, once again, is Austin, Texas. Yep, one of the longest weeks of my life has passed, and I'm none the worse for wear ( Read more... )

This is Las Vegas. McCarran International Airport, to be precise. My flight for Austin boards in about 20 minutes ( Read more... )

This is Chiloquin, Oregon...and the unpleasant deed is done ( Read more... )

This is Chiloquin, Oregon, where my mom lives now. Tomorrow morning, we hold a funeral mass for my sister in Klamath Falls. I got here early Monday morning, after flying out of Austin late Sunday night, nearly missing my connecting flight in Las Vegas (because I think our gate number wouldn't come up on a roulette wheel or something), and sacking ( Read more... )

This is Austin, Texas...but it's gonna be Klamath Falls, Oregon in about 24 hours, because I have to go home to bury my sister. It's not the sort of autumn homecoming I was hoping for, compounded by the fact we can only afford one ticket, so Sarah's not coming ( Read more... )

This is Austin, Texas, where the weather is cooling off...but the action is heating up ( Read more... )

This is Austin, Texas, where many of you will be two months from today ( Read more... )