Fiddler

Okay - it's depletion week.  I can tell.  I've been dreaming about food.  Sugary food.  Chocolate donuts, to be precise.  The huge round tray mounded with powdered, glazed and jelly-filled (all...

Wow.  Amazing.  Finished.  Amazing.  Wow. We now return you to your regularly scheduled life.

Harry Potter 7.  Relax, I won't tell you ANYthing.Rowling has outdone herself, I'm only a fourth of the way through, it is simply amazing writing, amazing storytelling.READ it!  

Haven't finished writing about the family funeral, finding I feel reluctant to relive the next 24 hours of that story, but it will eventually find its way here.Meanwhile, I'm 8 days from the...

5 Days.  2000 Miles.Monday, July 2. 8 hours later, I’m up, eat one of my prepackaged meals for breakfast.  My friend, Jeff, with whom I’m staying, tells me about my local gym choices.  I try...

5 Days.  2000 Miles.Last Sunday, July 1.  Somehow I manage to get in a workout, get packed and on the road by 11:00.  It’s a beautiful cool summer day, sunny, very few clouds.  The drive is...

5 days. 2,000 miles.Last Saturday, June 30   - Janie, my sister, calls with the news of Aunt Nellie's death. This was not unexpected news, Aunt Nellie was diabetic and had a weak heart. Her...

It is 3 in the morning. I just got home half an hour ago. Left my parents' house around 3:30 in the afternoon, kinda tired - drank a LOT of coffee. Usually a 10-hour trip, but took me eleven because...

I want to go home.Their need is too huge, too overwhelming, and as much as I want to help, I can't do enough. Every time I see them it gets a little worse. Every time I see them they are a little...

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.I'm going to drive about 2,000 miles over the next four days - my mother's youngest sister died yesterday morning. Mother knew it was coming,...

gotta find a summer jobgotta find a summer jobgotta find a summer jobgotta find a summer job......put it off too long!

8.5% body fat - lowest I've ever been, ever!  Still about 3% to go to be contest ready.  Trying not to obsess about my weaker points.Vain moment in Provincetown: we were waiting for the beginning...

My school, as alluded to in the previous entry, was renovated and reopened five years ago.  Of all the elementary schools in our district, ours is the newest and most handicapped accessible...

A piece of notebook paper is folded in half and is balanced on the door handle of my classroom.  (It's a lever, not a knob.  My school is newly renovated, I think it must be an accessibility...

The official concerts included annual Spring concert (June 5) performed by the elementary band, orchestra and 5th grade chorus, the 5th grade Farewell  Assembly (June 13) which we do in lieu of a...