Some writers awe me and make me wonder if my piddly scribblings are worth the time. It’s not uncommon for me to be in more than one book at a time. I get in the mood for one tome and start. My mood changes and I get into another. There…
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Nick’s turned 16 and is given to acts of rebellion. He’s not at the point where we’ve come to an impasse, just moments of defiance. Of course, as parents, we see his recalcitrance as silly. He doesn’t have many chores to do as a member of the household. Empty the…
Leave a CommentRight now, Virginia is trying to enroll in her health insurance plan at her new job. The process is about as degrading and demeaning as anything she has to do with her employment. First, under the guise of giving her “choice,” the employer has offered three plans, all called High-Deductible…
Leave a CommentYesterday, I took Nick out to a prestigious private school out south on State Line Road. He had an event, a volunteer day, for the Lincoln Preparatory Academy Robotics Club, of which he is an enthusiastic member. I took a route from our house that would avoid the neighborhood I…
Leave a CommentI filled in a survey form, a follow-up for a program I participated in two years ago called Artist INC. The Mid-America Arts Alliance hosted the program, which has now moved into it’s own offices on Troost Avenue. Artist INC was invaluable. If I had to do it again, I…
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