The major league baseball season–something I look forward to all winter long–started a little over a month ago, and I have to say that I’m not especially enjoying it so far. The Braves, my team through thick and thin for more than thirty years, are having a rough start, to put it very mildly. They’re… Read More Sports fan woes

Ah, here it is … the picture post. This isn’t a particularly good likeness of him, actually, but I can’t resist the look on his face.

I’m itching to post a photo or two, but some technical glitch here is not letting me save files to our server. I’ve asked Olof to fix it but he refuses to work on the holiday, so I guess that leaves me to come up with some words instead. I got a whole lot of… Read More Uninspired

The kids have a short week this week, with days off tomorrow and Friday, and I am really needing this break from the weekday routine. I’m nearly always home on the weekends, but they rarely feel like real breaks as I’ve either gotten home around midnight on Friday and am using the weekend to recoup… Read More Wednesday

I took Asbjørn to the vet yesterday to have them check out a growth he’s got on his gum. After poking around online, I concluded that it was most likely not cancerous, but I did also read that surgery is really the only treatment for these things. Given that he’s thirteen years old and he’s… Read More Dog doctor

I’ve just been checking my calendar and booking a last few remaining flights, and it looks like end-of-academic-year craziness is going to have me gone from home quite a bit over the next several weeks. I’ll still be home more than half the time, but with one full week away and another trip lasting five… Read More Demanding schedule

My dog, Asbjørn, will be 13 next month. It may have escaped the notice of some, but I love that dog like nobody’s business. He’s just a great, wonderful companion and my life is so much richer for having him in it. We’ve been lucky with his health and he’s been in pretty good shape,… Read More Emotional roller coaster

The other day I took one of those online tests that pops up regularly on Facebook, this time to determine whether my personality is Type A or Type B. For as long as I’ve been aware that these categories existed, I’ve considered myself a classic Type A, and most of the people who’ve known me… Read More Transformation?

So it’s well past time to update, but I just can’t seem to get myself in gear enough to sit down and get things put down here. It’s not that nothing has happened, because plenty has, but my power–or perhaps just my will–to write continues to escape me. In any case, I’ve set myself the… Read More Road map

So, Spain was good. The days were warm and sunny, the sangria was delicious and refreshing, the work was productive, and the city itself is lovely and full of beautiful sights. I probably should have written about it either when I was there–or shortly after I came back, at any rate–but I found myself in… Read More A little about Valencia