Winding down the year

We got back from California this morning after a red-eye flight from San Francisco. It was a direct flight, so not as bad as previous trips. I think I actually managed to sleep on this flight and I'm grateful for that. There are a number of things I'm grateful for as this year winds down. …

Friday Morning Thoughts: Good-bye 2018

To paraphrase the opening line of Anna Karenina, happy families are all alike. Unhappy families are unique in their unhappiness; or as is sometimes the case, in their weirdness. Here we sit at the end of 2018. I'm currently sitting in my father-in-law's house while his wife cooks breakfast. So far for the last four days …

Friday Morning Thoughts: Family & Christmas*

It's the Friday before Christmas, which this year falls on a Tuesday. We are in California visiting family. Between the two of us we have several visits to make. In my case, my family does a big pre-Christmas Christmas the weekend before the actual day. This means that everybody gets together at one house and …

Friday Morning Thoughts: Jumping on the offensensitivity* bandwagon

Lately, it seems as if everybody is looking for reasons to be offended. The latest petty reason that's come to my attention is the song "Baby, It's Cold Outside".  Bored Panda had a short piece that highlighted an English teacher's discussion (maybe it could be called a reverse fisking) of the lyrics of that song. …

Friday morning thoughts: Change

Sarah Hoyt had a great post about emerging from a cocoon and being a different person than you were at 7 or 18 or last night. That got me thinking about changes in my past and changes coming up in my future.

Friday morning thoughts

I just saw a comment from a friend describing another comment as “self-induced terror.”