Just As I Thought
Fun Stuff

Portrait of the Artist

Ah, that day when my friends Sara and Lance and I went to the Hirshhorn gallery to see the Laurie Anderson exhibit, and turned around to discover that we were being followed by… Laurie Anderson.

April 24, 2023
Fun Stuff

Self-Evident Truths

The last day of our conference featured a little bit of history: courtesy of Lyn and Norman Lear, a display of the Dunlap Broadside of the Declaration of Independence. The what you ask? Well, here’s how the story  [more...]

November 16, 2003

On the Board

Fun Stuff

I’m special

And last night when I got back to my room, there was a message that a package was waiting for me. I grumpily made my way back down to the basement to get the package… and discovered that it was a box of flowers  [more...]

November 15, 2003
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

Under surveillance

I haven’t posted lately because I’m here in Chicago working from 4am to 8pm at a national teacher’s convention. My feet hurt, my back hurts, and I’m generally sore from running back and forth  [more...]

November 14, 2003
Fun Stuff

Casting call

I’m formulating a brash plan to promote my friend Sara’s talents as a singer and songwriter. Most recently her focus has been on kids, but she has a vast portfolio of adult music. I have two major goals in  [more...]

November 11, 2003
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

Thoughts at 30,000 feet

It seems to me that there is some kind of strange, pervasive conspiracy at work in the airports of this country — inevitably, if my gate is, say, C3, the gates are numbered such that the low numbers are farthest  [more...]

November 10, 2003
Right = Wrong

Well… I don’t recall

My cousin Kirk made a comment earlier about the liberal love of John F. Kennedy. While neither of us were even born during the Kennedy era and thus have no first hand knowledge of what kind of president he was, I feel  [more...]

November 10, 2003