Happy Halloween
For the first time in several years, I won't have any Halloween costume. No one planned a party at work, and I wasn't home during trick-or-treat in town last week.…
Bread from Heaven
Some people say that marriage is more like a marathon than a sprint. If that’s the case, I won the bread portion of our marathon a few weeks ago.
For a long time, I have wanted us to get a breadmaker. Since I would have very little to do with the actual machine, the decision didn’t rest with me. I knew I would enjoy the end product, but that didn’t carry enough weight.
Maria insisted we didn’t need some contraption to make bread. She could make bread just fine on her own. And she could.
Greatest TV Show Ever
Sometimes, life smiles on you. Today is one of those days. The Fox Reality Channel is showing a marathon of the greatest television show in history. My Big Fat Obnoxious…
ITEOTWAWKI: Film Screening
Less than a week ago, the Athens Historical Society hosted a program called "R.E.M. in Perspective: An Athens History." The event featured panelists with all kinds of connections, including Kathleen…
Regular Guy Radio – Episode 21
Again, a few days later than expected, but I think this was worth the wait. The gang from Tullycraft join me for a discussion about their new album "Every Scene…
Podcast Update
I know I promised a podcast with Tullycraft by now, but I had a few unexpected things at work pop up and haven't finished editing, etc. It should be posted…
My First Grisham
I usually don't impulse buy books. Especially hard backs. Double especially John Grisham hardbacks. But there I was in Target, on a mission for something completely different, when I saw…
I Need to Know These Kinds of Things
I didn't find out until recently that there were plans for a second Harold & Kumar movie. I found out today that not only are there plans, but they have…
Too Many Thoughts
So things have been a little busy lately. Fighting off my allergies and dealing with a sick kid for part of the weekend have left me with little time to…
Tradition Has Its Place
When Maria and I first talked about getting married, we looked at where we might want to live. We had lived in Hanover for a few years each, but didn’t know if this is where we wanted to settle permanently.
The longer we thought about it, however, the more we realized we didn’t want to leave.
We didn’t have that far to travel to Lancaster or Baltimore to visit our families. We had a nice quiet neighborhood to raise a child. We grew quite fond of local traditions and customs.
The local paper has had a lot of back-and-forth about our local Halloween traditions. I don’t like to get high and mighty, but the newcomers should back off.