Merry Christmas!

Those late night Christmas Eve Masses are typically brutal on one’s sleep schedule, but last night’s at Queen of Peace was easily enjoyable enough to qualify as “worth it.” Lots of Christmas carols from the choir and a good and timely homily...

Big as a house

Los Altos, California Erin’s as big as a house and getting bigger. Travelling in this condition means stopping every 60 to 90 minutes so she can get out, walk around, and maintain the circulation. What that means is a trip that takes 11.5 hours normally took...

Great day

We met Bruce downtown at IHOP this morning for an extended visit. His is one of the cases where you wish he was around more often but you know that he’s having such a great time doing what he’s doing (in this case on the east coast) that it’s hard to...

Bruce!

Our friend Bruce is back in Oregon for a Christmas time visit, and today I had the pleasure of bopping around town with him to check out various digital cameras and accessories. The man is so much fun to hang out with that me and everybody who knows him wants to beat...

An Amazing travesty

If you saw the Amazing Race finale this evening like I did, I’m sure you’ll forgive the following: God is dead. There is no way that a whiny, bipolar, loser like Flo deserves to come away with $1 million. If she had any conscience whatsoever (and she does...