My body is back from our Baltic cruise (and has been since about midnight Friday) but neither it nor my mind are fully readjusted. I am (blissfully) behind on much of anything that happened over the last couple weeks. Catching up with personal items, work and attending the excellent O.A.R. concert last night [...]
The lights will largely be off around here for the next couple weeks. My wife and I are embarking on our long anticipated trip to the Baltic. (The sea, not the town north of Sioux Falls.)
I am going sans laptop not because of seizure concerns but because there will be much [...]
Posting has been virtually non-existent due to a several day trip to NYC with my three daughters this past week. Between what the hotel wanted to charge for internet access and my preferring to roam the city rather than the web, I was virtually cyber incommunicado.
I am still trying to recover from herding and [...]
This post must go in the perhaps better late than never category. It was drafted over the weekend and the fact it is being posted today reflects just how far it got with the various work and home activity that’s going on.
Anyway, twenty-two years ago this past weekend, my then less than three month [...]
I planned on getting some posting done this week, starting after I got home from work Monday night. So, I turned on the desktop PC and….. nothing. It would not boot up.
Long story short, it is now in the shop in the hopes that at least some data on the hard drive is [...]
A couple years ago I read a blog post somewhere about looking back on points in your life and wondering if or how things may have turned out different had you made a different choice. As we think about it, it’s amazing how seemingly insignificant some of the decisions appear at the time. [...]
When I first started practicing law, I loved the travel. San Francisco, Detroit, the Twin Cities, Raleigh-Durham, the Twin Cities and plenty of places betwixt and between. But I quickly learned that it wears on a person. I missed sleeping in my own bed and I especially missed my kids, young as they [...]
February 28, 2008 – 8:25 pm
My youngest daughter has been a competitive swimmer for at least 10 of her 16+ years on this planet. It is coming to a rather sorrowful end.
To fully understand, you have to realize this is a kid who would rather swim than eat. And when I say swim, I don’t mean it in [...]
February 14, 2008 – 7:48 pm
Ben Franklin’s comment about the certainty of death and taxes seemed true around our household this week.
Sunday morning, the 36-year-old husband of my wife’s niece died of cancer. My wife was there for the week prior to the death helping her niece tend to her husband and their four children as the inevitable approached. [...]
February 9, 2008 – 11:31 am
It was one of those hectic, and at times trying and irritating, weeks. But by Friday evening both college girls were home, bringing the “terrible trio” together for middle daughter’s 19th birthday this weekend.
While the noise and activity level more than triples, there also seems to be a corresponding increase in everyone’s feeling of [...]
December 24, 2007 – 10:20 am
Now that I think I have all the initial bugs worked out, I’m pretty sure this year’s Christmas greeting (although, like other bloggers, a repeat), is coming from my new server. And although I call it my traditional one, my Christmas greeting is not traditional in the standard sense of the word. But you [...]
December 23, 2007 – 9:12 am
While not wishing to step into the whole Merry Christmas v. Happy Holidays debate, I generally refer to the “holidays” because in the course of a little over a month you’ve got Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas and New Years — three of which are official U.S. holidays regardless of your creed or religion. Still, [...]
December 15, 2007 – 9:19 pm
The last couple days convinced me it was karma that my middle daughter ended up going to college in Nebraska. For reasons detailed below, it looked liked there might a temporary blackout here in today’s on sale for Springsteen’s March 14 appearance in Omaha. Figuring a town in Nebraska wouldn’t be subject to [...]
November 27, 2007 – 3:52 pm
It’s one of those things that leaves a horrible feeling in your gut. This afternoon, my RSS reader popped up a South Dakota media blog post that Ron Bender of Rapid City was killed Monday in a hit-and-run accident in Gaithersburg, Md.
Ron and his wife, Muriel Shepard, were at the Rapid City Journal when [...]
November 10, 2007 – 10:45 am
The last time this post title appeared it was because I had tickets to a Springsteen solo performance at Northrup Auditorium in Minneapolis. Today, it is because I got two good lower level seats to Bruce and the E Street Band in St. Paul on March 16.
That’s right. Immediately after last Friday’s concert [...]
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