…Not necessarily in that order.
As I mentioned on Sunday, yesterday’s plan involved driving north so that a son could spend his girlfriend’s birthday with her. This also would give me opportunity to visit my sick father, who although home from the hospital seems to have lost his voice (vocal chords not responding for some [...]

Tomorrow is an anticipated disaster.  I’ve been tasked with dropping someone off three hours away by ten in the morning, which means I’ll be leaving here as soon after the boys are on their buses as I can manage, and then with bringing him home sometime after eight at night, which means I’ll be getting [...]

I am still feeling the combined effects of the changing of the clocks and the loss of so many hours to driving. Tonight’s setbacks were a delayed grocery trip followed by a phone call from a friend (more a friend of the boys, but a dear girl to many here) who missed the bus [...]

I realized this afternoon, as six o’clock bore down on me and I had not yet begun supper and knew I would soon have to get Baxter for our Collision rehearsal, that it did not feel so late as it was. It struck me almost immediately that we changed the clocks over the weekend–last [...]

I lost a big chunk of yesterday to return a son’s girlfriend to her distant home. I was shorted on sleep for it, and am not certain I fully caught up today. I was also behind on the work, since I spent the bulk of this evening doing the major part of my [...]

I was wrapping up last night, with only the Corinthians list still to do, when I was asked whether I would be willing to go for a short ride. The short ride wound up about an hour each direction, and the quick run inside also hit about an hour, so by the time I [...]

It was like most other Mondays, really. I got through the e-mail, which is the bulk of the Monday workload, and I took my mother-in-law shopping. At the same time, it was not like other Mondays. One of my sons is sick, and no sooner did I have the others on their [...]

I awoke relatively early today, but while I was still awakening I was abruptly reminded of two things I knew two days ago and had completely forgotten.
I had an untouched cup of coffee next to me, and I had even decided in a rare move to get some breakfast, so I had an untouched bowl [...]

I don’t usually recognize these things.
Actually, that’s not true. Usually I notice them, and then forget to mention them when I’m writing the blog, and remember afterward that I was going to say something about it. Dates, events, anniversaries, all of that stuff slips by unmentioned because I don’t keep them in my [...]

My thanks to those who have encouraged me to get some rest. I slept reasonably well last night and this morning, and although I am fighting occasional hints of queasiness I am not certain whether it is from the early stages of being sick, or merely from thinking about it.
I am considering cancelling tonight’s [...]