I’m off to the South…a trip that will log way more 1000s of kilometers on my mom’s cute PT Cruiser than I care to acknowledge at this point!  But I’ll see good friends along the way and I’ll get to brag about BFA’s students in two churches, so it’s all for a good cause. I […]

I’ve been getting emails lately that have prompted me to consider the various ways in which we approach grief, loss, or severe change.  Some seniors (I mean college freshmen!) have written to ask if they should be feeling worse than they are — and others have written to ask if they’ve been overreacting to the […]

It’s just five hours before I leave home for the airport, courtesy of my limo-driver, Ted Dick.  Can you believe he actually volunteered to pick me up at 5:30 am???  Amazing… But before heading to the land ‘o burgers, I dressed up in my finest apparel last night and went out on the town with […]

What better place to watch the USA/Italy soccer game than in one of my very favorite haunts….  The Mulheim Mezzo, which is apparently deemed “off the chain” by certain members of BFA’s student community.  I’m told that’s a good thing, though being “off the chain” evokes images of terminally mangled bicycle chains or escapes from […]

Question:  Why do Smart Cars look like such Dumb Cars?  It’s like tacking “PhD” onto the title “Miss America”…doesn’t make her look any brighter. Just something I was pondering as I drove through Holzen on my way home…..  More coming soon.  Promise.

It’s over.  The 05-06 school has finished in a flurry of late-night spontaneity and ceremonial milestones.  You’ll find below a collection of pictures commemorating the events.  At the bottom of this post are two URLs that will allow you to browse through additional pictures, either individually or as a slide show.  They include all my […]

My eyes are swollen. One more day to love them. One more day to wrap my hope around them. One more day to wonder if I said enough, did enough, loved well enough… Not even a whole day–a couple hours of ceremonial sterility, a few stollen moments in a crowd of well-wishers, febrile arms and […]

[See, this is the thanks I get for putting my trust in wise guys like Jeremy, aka. “Look-at-this-cute-face—could-you-possibly-distrust-someone-as-likable-as-me??”  I gave him my password so he could install a nifty little doodad on my Xanga, and lo and behold, I was greeted this morning with a very un-me entry.  FYI, if ever you hear me using […]

PHOENIX PHUNDAMENTALS I’m told there’s no time left for chit-chat, so I’m going to be succinct.  Here, in random order, are my basic rules for living!  Do with them as you please… Say please, thank you, and “how may I help you” as often as humanly possible. When in doubt, wash your hands.  Seriously! The hardest choice […]

(Warning–this might get long!!) (Dangling carrot–there are pictures of soccer finals, our five-alarm fire drill, and last night’s sleepover at the end of this entry! ) There’s something about endings that pushes people to extremes.  I won’t mention the imminent “ending” that is looming on all our horizons–mostly because Sunny might start to flail and […]