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Wow. What a busy weekend. We had an extended family crabfeast here on Saturday. Then we had our local fire department's carnival to go to that evening. We went to the Orioles game on Sunday in…
Those of you who know me already are aware that my favorite way to procrastinate from writing is to browse through websites devoted to writing, publishing and editing. I call it, "research", but we…
All right, don't get too excited, but this is my second blog entry in 5 or 6 days. Unreal, right? Man, I feel like all I've been doing with my life is writing blogs! Two in one week? It's definitely…
Wake up, John. It's July.
What? July already? Can't be. I'm going back to sleep.
It's July, John. You need to get up and write a blog.
Well, I'm looking at the calendar right now and it says, "July…
Ahhh. Summer. Goes by so fast. What month is it now, July? June? June, you say? Wow. Seems like just yesterday it was April. Or November. Or something.
So, what's been up? Well, we are now 3 weeks…
Well this week has been a bit crazy, but we got through it. My wife had to go out of town for a few days and with five kids all involved in different activities (except the girls, they've been…
I really do need to get back to blogging, don't I? It's been almost a MONTH since I told you about the Greenpeace activists' little stunt! So, what's been up?
Well, both boys have started baseball…
Here's the link, in case you think I'm making all this up.
Apparently, four activists associated with Greenpeace have climbed onto the top of a Boeing 777 at London's Heathrow airport to protest the…
I guess some explanation is in order. I've started using a thing called, "Utterz" to do some of my blogging/status updating. Utterz is a way for people to record voice messages, text messages,…
So I was actually out in public the other day and I heard a father yelling at his daughter. This guy was completely flying off the handle. Yelling. Screaming. Bellowing. Right near the end of his…
Hey everyone.
Is it already January 10? Man, the year is just FLYING by. So do I have anything to say? Of course I do. Just a few months ago, we had no kids taking gymnastics classes and now we…
As I sit here on the evening of January the First, in the year of our Lord 2008, I am reflecting on the just passed holiday season and I think about what Christmas means to me. So here it is, in…
If the light-up, decorative reindeer in my front yard falls down one more time, I'm going to leave it on the ground, surround it with empty beer cans and call him "White trash Rudolph" because I have…
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Long time, eh? I'm just relaxing a bit tonight. Listening to some music, answering some messages and, oh yeah, writing a blog post for the first time in weeks. I've spent the past few days…
Just when I've convinced myself that no publisher or agent will be interested in a collection of personal essays and memoirs from some unknown writer, and I decide to break up the collection and try…
We're back from vacation, where I blatantly broke the cardinal rule for writers, which is, "take a notebook everywhere you go." I had some ideas that I thought were funny, but can't remember them…
Man, it's so easy to continue not writing when you get into the habit of not writing. All of our fall sports stuff is over now and things are getting back to normal. Vacation is coming, but this one…
Tomorrow, I blog.
Tonight, I enjoy the rain, and the cool weather and the quiet of a house full of sleeping children.
Maybe I'll read some more of The Book Thief.
Maybe I won't.
Wow. Where to begin? Let me go read the teaser. I'll be back.
Ok. I'm back. First up, extracurricular activities. We have one high schooler playing field hockey, one younger boy playing football and…
