For the past month-and-a-half I’ve joined in with a group of friends to play kickball once a week.
Yes, kickball. Every Wednesday evening we’ve gone head-to-head with one of the 25 other teams in the league. Yes, there’s a league. We’ve kicked, caught, run, and thrown, all activities which surprisingly can be done with a [...]
Last night was National Night Out (or, as the Canadians say, National Night Oot). I’ve never celebrated this night before, but last night we had the chance to go see a friend’s band play at a little party. It would have been a bike ride over there except it was well over 90 degrees. Everyone [...]
I went home to celebrate my wife and my dad’s birthdays last night. The birthdays were last Thursday and Friday, respectively. Yesterday happened to be Tuesday, and the season happens to be summer, which meant that my hometown’s “Summer Tuesdays” event was going on downtown. It’s one of the few non-touristy, non-yuppie things left in [...]
While riding on a train goin’ west,
I fell asleep for to take my rest.
I dreamed a dream that made me sad,
Concerning myself and the first few friends I had.
With half-damp eyes I stared to the room
Where my friends and I spent many an afternoon,
Where we together weathered many a storm,
Laughin’ and singin’ till the early [...]
I haven’t posted much the past few weeks. Life and its obligations have conspired to keep me pretty busy. We’ve been having a lot of fun. Some might say, too much fun. When I’ve had the forethought, I’ve sought to preserve the moments in pictures (Coen bros. movie reference, gold star if you name it).
The [...]
*Please don’t read this if you don’t like cussing.*
"Excuse me, was somebody shooting up here?"
"You’re goddamn motherfucking right I was shooting at those goddamn grackles they eat all my fucking minnows."
We had traveled five hours from Minnesota for a friend’s wedding. I had a morning to myself in an area reputed for some fine trout [...]
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