I got to spend the weekend with my sister, her husband, and Goobi (my nephew), my mom, my dad, and my brother. That’s all of us. My brother-in-law blessed my nephew in Church on Sunday. So we all made sure we were there for that.
My nephew is the cutest kid in the world. And smart [...]

Back in June I paid $20 to register for an eleven mile trail race. That really isn’t that bad of a race registration. At the registration I got a free pair of running socks because I registered so early.
Yesterday I went and picked up my race packet. I got a free smoothie, a key ring [...]

Today is Johnny Appleseed day. Seven years ago today I was in Mexico doing my student teaching. I was in the town of Colonia Juaréz, a town with lots of apple and peach orchards. One of my students brought apples for me and the other student teachers almost weekly. And they were so good. I [...]

I was cleaning off my phone this week, erasing old text messages and clearing out the call logs, who called me, who I called, who called when I didn’t answer. It was interesting and I started noticing patterns. I’m not a big phone person. But I do like numbers. So I counted how many times [...]

Yesterday was the official first day of Autumn. It seemed like the perfect time for the colors to change on my website and blog just as they are changing on the leaves of the trees in places of the country where they have Autumn (Tucson not being one of those). Luckily I took a lot [...]

There are 29 elephants in my living room, that you can see.

Next Friday I’ll be participating in a visual neuro-cognitive brain study with MRIs on campus. They needed right handed people who are native English speakers and don’t have any metal in their body. That’s me! So I e-mailed and told them I was interested. Yesterday they called and asked me questions for 15 minutes to [...]

Legend says that it was on this day, 26 years ago, that the emoticon was created. (The emoticon is older than my sister. huh)
Of course my vote for the best use of an emoticon is much, much older than that. See John 2:9 for that one.

During the Olympics I commented how I like to talk like a not-so-bright pirate from Peter Pan when I’m watching diving competitions. Today I can talk like a not-so-bright pirate all day!
Or should I say…
Today I be talkin’ like a pirate a few buckaneers shy o’ a crew.

Me parrot weighed anchor and I be left [...]

I have finished a Christmas present!! And it’s still September. This is quite the accomplishment for me. Normally I am putting the finishing touches on all of them late on the 24th of December. So to have one done this early is practically insane. And actually, I’m almost done with a second one as well.
Good [...]