Since I work all day on the computer, I seldom play games. Last year or the year before, though, one of my kids introduced me to a game site – Grab.com. At Christmastime, my daughter at college would send me challenges to see if I could be her at a game called “Night Before Christmas.”… Continue reading Games on the Computer
Probably not an apt title for this particular entry. Today is Holy Thursday, called Maundy Thursday in some religions. I don’t recall this being as big when I was growing up as it is now. I truly enjoy tonight’s Mass. Though it is longer than the normal Sunday Mass, it celebrates the Last Supper. This… Continue reading Random Thoughts
In my area of the world – or maybe it is in my own little world, one spring ritual is a good snow. That is coming, unfortunately. But this morning, I got to practice a different spring ritual. I was woken up by thunder. I thought it was the middle of the night as the… Continue reading A Spring Ritual
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, in dissenting opinion regarding the case Massachusetts et al vs. EPA et al, said “No matter how important the underlying policy issues at stake, this court has no business substituting its own desired outcome for the reasoned judgment of the responsible agency.” He and the other four conservative justices, including… Continue reading Is the EPA really as stupid as the Supreme Court case makes it seem?
Okay, so I am told by the news, that opening day has happened. I use to love baseball. I can remember watching games – any games – as a teenager and keeping box scores in a notebook. That all changed in 94 due to the “work stoppage.” I am one of those baseball fans that… Continue reading Baseball Season
Today starts what is arguably the most important week of the Christian year. Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week. As Christians are a people of the risen Christ, Easter and His resurrection are the most important time of the church year. Palm Sunday marks Jesus’s triumphant ride into Jerusalem. At this time as… Continue reading The Most Important Week of the Year
For the past ten years or so, my spring road trip season has focused around soccer. Vacations were planned and other items done by the soccer schedule. Now that the soccer player is in college, that is the fall road trip season. This year, my road trip season started yesterday. I took a day trip… Continue reading The Spring Road Trip Season Begins
While I sometimes curse that my 18 year old is too independent, I think it is important for parents to raise children who know how to live and move without their parents around to tell them how. To that end, the oldest five of my six children – the youngest to some extent also, have… Continue reading Raising Independent Children
Do I dare tempt fate? I have managed to clear a space in the laundry room – no small feat – and want to bring in from storage the boxes with spring/summer clothing in them and swap out the winter items. What happens when I do this? Unfortunately, history has proven that I end up… Continue reading Do I dare tempt fate?
I swear, even if I didn’t have high school students in the music program, I would still go to the annual Prism concert. Our high school music program is rather good. It is the culmination of a long history of good music programs. In a school district with a student population of approximately 2700, the… Continue reading My Favorite Concert of the Year
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