I just hit the “send” button on my final paper of the year. I can’t believe I have finished my first year of course work. As with anything well anticipated, it feels good. I have big plans for all the TV shows I’m going to watch over the summer. Literally, just sit, with the remote [...]

So, the past three weeks have been quite eventful. Our move didn’t go off without a hitch. The day after my last post, on March 8th, I went out into our driveway to back up our car to go to the airport, slipped on black ice and ended up at the ER getting stitches [...]

As I sit at my desk reading my assignment for Rhetorical Ethics tonight, I’m completely distracted. You see, we are moving this weekend and are supposed to have carpet installed in our home prior to Saturday. Unfortunately, Shaw did not load our carpet on their truck in time to get it here for the masterfully [...]

So, life has been a bit crazy of late.  When we relocated to Minnesota, we decided to rent for six months to get a feel for the Twin Cities before we purchased a home.  So, I signed a six-month lease that had the option of turning month-to-month at the end of February 2007.  Well, the [...]

Last night, when I returned home from school, our nanny gave me the update on her weekend. She had been set up on a blind date. For some context, our babysitter is 14 years younger than me. I am 34 years old, and she is 20 (just in case you can’t do the math). After [...]

This morning, I received a very insightful lesson from my five-year-old, Collin, on the method for extinguishing a fire if your body is burning. This was great review from my own 1977 kindergarten lesson on the same topic. It seems, in 30+ years, we have the Internet, Botox as mainstream, iPods, and more; however, we [...]