Archive for the ‘Family’ Category

Obamas attend Parent-Teacher Conferences

Mr. and Mrs. Obama attend daughters’ Parent-Teacher Conference.
I have been attending high-school volleyball games lately and have noticed that there is a terrible scourge of parents that just do not show up for their own children’s events. I even witnessed a student get significantly injured during a game that needed medical attention and yet [...]

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Good and Evil should never be Political

You know… its very difficult to be a Centrist in this overly-polarized political realm that is America today.  As a Populist I wish to stay economically conservative. In fact, almost more conservative than any Neo-Con could hope to be. But when matters dive within social matters,  it remains most rational to stay quite liberal… and [...]

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The Great Michigan Adventure…

For the last three weeks or so I had ventured back to Michigan for a tour, if you will, of the state of which I was raised.
On my agenda first was the Hiawatha Music Festival, a traditional music (read hippies in long, grotesquely patterned skirts banging on fiddles, bongos, and the usual assortment of acoustic [...]

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I Haven’t Died…

I apologize for lack of regular updates lately. It is summer and summers are incredibly busy for me, though, I am not entirely sure why. I have to assume that it is only because my typical hermitesque excuses to withdraw into my mancave just do not fly when the weather is pleasant.
Pleasant? well, ok warm. [...]

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Cast amidst a Cold-hearted Orb’s Downward Gaze

I cannot sleep though I am not sure why.  The day that has now long since passed was ever so eventful.
It started off with school of my own… the first full day of classes and yet it wasn’t full at all. Major construction sent my final class in hybrid mode. What on earth is hybrid [...]

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