That was not the race I had planned to run. In some ways it turned out better than I thought it would, in other ways worse.
I actually didn’t get to the race on time. I got there ten minutes late. But they have computer chip things that you tie to your shoe for the official [...]

It was 29 years ago right now that I was born. My dad claims that it was the earliest I have ever been up in my life. Except today I woke up at 3am because I needed to be somewhere before 8 in the morning even. I’m looking forward to a good day today.

The first Harry Potter book was published in the United States in 1998. It was a real big hit and everyone was reading them. Because everyone else was doing it, I decided I would never read the books. My family felt about the same way.
Three years later I was in Brasil and saw the second [...]

The other day I noticed this information about the final Harry Potter book:
Product Details
ISBN: 0545010225
ISBN-13: 9780545010221
Format: Hardcover, 784pp
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Sales Rank: 1
Age Range: 9 to 12
Series: Harry Potter Series, #7
I would NOT give this book to a 9 year old, or even a 12 year old. And I haven’t even read it yet. These stopped [...]

I need to turn in my entries for the County Fair on Tuesday, July 17th. As usual, I’m having a hard time picking which ones I want to print and enter. I’ve pulled out my favorites from the last year and put them all on one page of my website. Let me know what you [...]

I got home from the movie not quite an hour ago. I still don’t think my mind has processed all of it. The film was great. It was exciting to be there to see it at midnight with a full theater (and another one right down the hall, and two more starting at 12:15 further [...]

Two more days till the movie comes out. I just bought my ticket. I’m so excited. And I’ve got my hat and shirt ready to go for it. I’m working my way through the books again, but I won’t have the fifth one done in time for the movie. I am watching the other four [...]

In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands, which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws [...]

Thirteen years ago I had the opportunity to visit Gettysburg at the beginning of July. There is a feeling there that is hard to describe. It is strange to know that you are walking on the ground where so many people died. I thought I would put here the address that President Lincoln gave at [...]