I feel like I’ve been slacking and letting my readers (both of you) down by not posting anything since the middle of September. Part of that is due to the fact that nothing that occurs this year could come close to matching the births of Owen Dickens and, more recently, Ruby Rumrill (Baby Roo). After Owen was [...]
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October 21st, 2009
August 31st, 2009
After 31 days, 32 posts (including this one), and a great deal of nonsense, I have finally completed my quest to write every day for a month. Originally, my plan was to use today as an opportunity to explain my motivation to take on such a grueling task. However, I kind of already touched on my [...] August 29th, 2009
I have a friend who has been having a good go at life recently. This person has been very happy, and has been making that apparent to her Facebook friends by posting her glee on the “LOOK AT ME” (AKA as the Status update). Yesterday, this friend posted a status update chastising her friends for their [...] August 24th, 2009
The other day I began this story about my favorite hat. I explained how I got the hat, how much that tattered treasure means to me, and how I came to the heartbreaking decision to finally retire it to prevent it from falling apart. Now it’s time for me to explain why I call the hat the [...] August 20th, 2009
It was October 2001 and my platoon was on a field rotation at the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) in Fort Polk, Louisiana. For anyone who has ever been in the Army, you are probably very familiar with what training exercises like JRTC are like. The rotation lasts almost a month, with about two weeks of [...] August 19th, 2009
It’s a short one tonight, folks. Earlier in the week I made plans with a friend to have dinner this evening. So, right after my afternoon run, I packed up my crap from the office, drove home to shower, and headed to Old Town Alexandria. I was supposed to meet her at 7 PM so I was [...] August 18th, 2009
On June 30th I posted this entry describing the interesting way that memory works. The point was well made then, and I don’t need to remake it now. I think we all understand that The Persistence of Memory is a strange thing…
La Persistencia de la Memoria
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