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Saying goodbye to the girls of summer

From a psychological and emotional standpoint, summer is at a close. My oldest daughter left this morning on her 500-mile move to graduate school in Missouri. My youngest daughter starts her last year of high school Monday. And middle daughter leaves Wednesday for her second year of college in Nebraska (although at a different campus […]

Randomness from the rut race

Things are sparse around this part of the internet because I feel a post-vacation rut. After days of new experiences, new places and new cultures, it’s back to earth. Although my exhaustion has vanished and I’m now basically caught up both at work and home, ambition is sorely lacking as routine life resumes and I […]

Back from the Baltic

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 with my […]

Forthcoming blog silence

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 more interesting […]

NYC: Witches, phantoms and spam

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 […]