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Sometimes I wonder just how independent I am: at 6:00am sharp Donna cracks the whip and I leap out of bed to start charcoal for the smoker, add water to the pool, sweep the patio, put up the umbrella, and empty our big green utility wagon so we can decorate it for the neighborhood parade. […]
I started an informational web site for Hash House Harriers in 1995 and worked on it furiously for six years – it may as well have been a second full-time job. In 2001 a couple of friends offered to help with some of the load, and in 2003 several additional friends joined in. Not only […]
My dad was 16 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He – like every other young man in South Sioux City, Nebraska – wanted to join up and fight, but without his parents’ permission the recruiters wouldn’t take him. As men aged 18 and older began to be drafted, local employers scrambled to hire 16- […]
This is our miniature dachshund Schatzi. The guy in the photo is me, and we’re on the street in front of our house. The mountains are the Santa Catalinas, north of Tucson, Arizona. Donna and I recently discovered that our neighborhood park has two fenced off-leash dog runs, one for large dogs and one for […]
This is revealing: “If the town complains and says no, the committee can ask the principal or the director of teachers to approach the teacher and say, ‘Look, this is not the subject to be taught here in this town, or in this place, because we know we have been humans from the beginning, ‘” […]
We watched The Da Vinci Code last night. They say the critics jeered and laughed at the film when it was shown at Cannes. Okay, maybe it wasn’t brilliant, but it was solid and entertaining. I didn’t hear anyone laughing. Well, actually, I laughed, but just a little. And only at this one part (stop […]
Sometimes it’s nice to be wrong. Turns out Angie’s friend isn’t a flake after all, and there’s nothing wrong with the bike. We drove up to Phoenix this morning, test rode the bike, and trailered it back to Tucson. Guys have a thing about the size of the wheels on their trailers. Big is manly, […]
Since I’m working the early shift this month, I get to spend time with Donna in the afternoons. Today, though, we’re doing different things: I’m checking e-mail in the office while she embroiders hash hats in the sewing room. She’s got the TV on in there, listening to Doctor Phil while she works. And what […]