Archive for January, 2009
The Finest Student
I’m taking a moment here to have a Proud Mom post for my daughter. Shannon is currently in the middle of doing the college app/scholarship app thing, and I want to share one of the glowing letters of recommendation her English teacher did for her. Am I bragging about my kid? Hell yes [...]
At Last
It might just be my mushy state of mind of late, but this video of President Obama and his First Lady dancing gives me chills. The good kind It’s just beautiful.
Téléfrançais – L’ANANAS!!!!!
Oh. My. GAWD. YouTube has EVERYTHING.
We watched a kids show that taught basic French to students, and with some help from The Google, I found Téléfrançais, the zany adventures of a talking pineapple in French class for years when I was in high school. When I tried to describe it to my daughter, all I [...]
Aunt Judy
For the past couple of days I’ve been working on this site for the paper. It’s the sort of “home” for the year-long (and a bit) series of cancer stories written by people in our community. It’s been a beautiful series, and photographer Scott Kingsley and columnist George Ayoub put a lot of work into [...]
Roadtrippin’
Today was one of those days when you just say, “Ahhhhh, what a lovely day.” at the end of it
It seems like every time we make plans to head into Lincoln to visit the Voelkers, something happens to keep that from happening. One time was spent in a snowy ditch after we drove [...]
Rambling about
Today I decided I wanted to go shoot some pix outside of town. The weather’s fairly nice, if brisk and I’ve the day off from work and it would feel good to get out of the house for a while.
Instead of just driving out into the country though, I thought we’d go back [...]
