Autumn is here. I can feel it on the cool of the breeze and hear it in the rattle of cottonwoods, their leaves transitioning from waxy and green to brittle […]

If you read the blog post before this one (and if you didn’t, then you should), then you know what an arduous ordeal it was, first building and later putting […]

Last night, it all finally caught up to me. I have so much to do, so little time to do it in — my to-do list grows daily, and every […]

I knew the moment I saw them that I had to change course, and quickly. Our neighbors were coming for dinner that evening, but had graciously suggested that they provide […]

Yesterday, I said something to Titus, my not-quite-two-year-old-son, which included the phrase “by myself” therein. Afterwards, he kept repeating it, over and over, as if it were some sort of […]

Last year, Sonja and I visited the Charles Krug winery, the oldest winery in the Napa Valley, about a month after its infamous owner, Peter Mondavi, passed away. There, I […]

As a teacher, I often hear about how little work we do in the summer. Usually, I don’t commit homicide as a response. It’s true, I suppose, that work is […]

Warning: This story starts out pretty personal. If you don’t want to know details about my life, abort mission now. I won’t hold it against you. Hell, I won’t even […]

In a previous class I taught this summer, I challenged my M.Ed. students to create a lesson plan around Coach Jimmy V’s “Heck of a day” speech in which the […]

The wine: 2013 Coppola Vendetta 2013. The backstory: I bought this in a liquor store in North Platte, Nebraska. (God forgive me.) The specs: Cali blend of two reds, mostly […]