Carson noticed last week that a robin had started to build a nest in a tree between our yard and our next door neighbors’. Now, the fact that Carson noticed does not really bode well for the nest, as the nest is less than four feet off the ground — in the main fork of […]

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No kids here — just an assortment of nature photos I took over the weekend.

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Eight years? Really?! How time flies, in some respects. Eight-and-a-half years ago, I was part of a group of friends and co-workers who got together to fight the election of our then-governor to The White House. The result was a three-song collaboration in the vein of protest songs from the 60s — The GeorgyBush Project. […]

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I don’t normally do book reviews on this blog, but I figured all you aunts, uncles, great-uncles, parents, and grandparents are probably getting tired of this endless barrage of cute kid pictures and adorable kid anecdotes. And, besides, if Kelly over at The Family with Three Last Names can read 70 books in a year […]

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I’ve been a University of Texas baseball fan for several years, but my general Longhorn-ness has definitely intensified since we moved to Ohio. I’m not anti-Buckeye by any means. As I told people both here and in Austin after we moved, I can root for Texas first, the Big 12 second, Ohio State third, and […]

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It’s 9:30 on Sunday morning and Julie has just left for her second trip to the gym of the day. She got up early this morning to go and work out, and she picked up a flyer while she was there about a power yoga class that was later this morning. She grabbed bagels on the […]

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Carson’s first grade teacher sent out a note last night inviting parents to sign up on a private wiki she’d set up that she will be using as one of the tools for exploring technology with her students in the second half of the year. In passing, she mentioned her blog. That’s right. Carson’s teacher […]

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It’s a twisting, sordid tale, too long to be called short, and yet too short to truly be called long. It all started with a couple of blog posts from a friend and former co-worker about her recent trials and tribulations with a no-knead bread recipe. I clicked through on her link and read the […]

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The dogs hit the kennel (well “The Pet Palace” — overpriced with needless luxuries…but that’s just my opinion) for a couple of days over Thanksgiving. To express their frustration (Julie would say, “Due to the stress…”) they managed to pee on their doggy bed. Yes…we take their doggy bed with them, because that will make […]

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We got / are getting a couple of nice surprises over the long weekend. Thanks to Facebook, I recently upped the frequency of communication with a couple that I’ve known for as long as I can remember. Growing up, Aaron and Barbara attended the Unitarian church we went to (Aaron even co-taught the “AYS” class…so […]

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