I’ve decided to go for a midnight run of several miles and then come home and drink hot tea and take a bubble bath to warm up from having gone running in 12 degree weather.
Holiday running is kind of fun. I went on July 4th after the fireworks. I ran on Halloween instead of staying [...]

As we say good-bye to 2007 and hello to 2008, I was thinking of a few toasts I could make tonight.

Here’s to being poorer than a part-time school teacher, but in a warmer climate!
Here’s to sewing fabric instead of buying it.
May treasured friendships never grow old.
To running fast and running far.

I’ll have to think of [...]

My diploma for my Masters degree arrived in the mail. I actually wasn’t expecting it for a while still, considering how long it took them to do some of the other paperwork. What struck me about the document though was what has been conferred on me along with the degree, namely the rights, honors, and [...]

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:
and the government shall be upon his shoulder:
and his name shall be called Wonderful,
Counsellor,
The mighty God,
The everlasting Father,
The Prince of Peace.

I wish everyone the peace that comes from the Babe whose birth we celebrate today.

Every year, NORAD tracks Santa Claus on his annual round the world trip. My mom always gets a kick out of this. You can watch actual satellite images of Santa as he circles the Eiffel Tower or follows the Great Wall of China. They even have a hot line set up so you can call [...]

I have to believe that pig farmers do no have a sense of smell. Their job burns it out of them.
We went to a pig farm this morning. Some of the people my parents know own one. He said we could come at 5am, but that was much too early. So we went at 7:30 [...]

My family is absolutely hilarious. It’s a lot of fun when we get together because we all say the most random things, and we all get each other’s sense of humor.
For example, how many other homes would have the following exchange:
brother up in the attic: (excited) I found a severed arm!
mother down in the house: [...]

This week was a bit of an eye opening experience for me. I have been at my current job since August of 2002 when I walked into it not really knowing what I was doing. Since then I have created quite the job, with all kinds of small things that I do almost automatically. But [...]

For the last six years I have been teaching keyboarding to third graders. It takes more than half their year with me that year. Before they get to third grade we do a lot of fun games. After third grade we still do keyboarding, but we do a lot of fun games (all educational games [...]

It seems like I’ve heard this one several times lately, and every time it makes me want to correct them. When giving advice on what to do and what to avoid to get a good night’s sleep, there are those who always say that exercise before bed is bad. One thing I read yesterday said [...]