Spring Cleaning

At some point in the relatively near future, this blog and all its content (I hope) will be moved to an as-yet undisclosed location on the internet. Still trying to figure out how to make the whole migrating thing work. Hm. Anyway, in the meantime, please enjoy a few photos I dug up:     [...]

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Where I Sleep

Tonight, anyway. After a long day of conferencing and meetings, this bed will do. I have a 7 AM (!) meeting tomorrow and then I’m getting the hell out of here – the internet is too damn slow and winter weather will be approaching and I miss my family and my own bed.  

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Olden Times

I can see both of my parents in this photo of me, and my daughter, too. And my nephew. We were living in Maine when this was taken. Maine happened between Florida and New York, I think, and we lived in a variety of places – a house, an attic, our VW bus at a [...]

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Time is Short

It’s because of laundry, another slide presentation that has to be prepared, groceries, vacuuming, putting the sheets on the bed, dinner, seed order-making, stuff like that. But here’s a photo of today’s sky, per the January Photo A Day Challenge. More tomorrow.

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There’s a World Out There

So – what have you guys been doing? June and July, in a nutshell: The Soundtrack of Our Lives came to Urbana-Champaign. We took them to lunch at Black Dog, of course. They played two shows – an in-store at Parasol: And a full-on show at the High Dive. There was a party later. The neighborhood [...]

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Influential

Because I never think I should be doing what I’m actually doing, I should be: – writing the next IMBY segment – drafting a proposal for my Next Big Idea – switching the laundry – working further in the garden, which is a bit of a mess (but home, sweet [muddy] home to the tiny [...]

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Happy, Merry

True to my theme this season, you guys are getting your “card” a little late. Hope everyone has had an excellent and fun buildup to the end of 2010, and I wish everyone the best for 2011, a year that sounds incredibly futuristic and impossible. It is likely that I’ll post again before 2010 is [...]

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