I spent this past weekend on the road (literally) as my youngest and I were off on the last college tour before she makes her decision on where she’ll spend the next four years of her educational career. This time, we were off to the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa), a jaunty, twelve-hour trip (door to door) from my house in MD to campus. We rose early on Friday and hit the road before the sun came up, my youngest excited…
Like many of you, I have had my share of boring days and evenings during the pandemic. Nowhere to really go, lots of household projects that I really don’t want to get started, and it seems like I’ve pretty much exhausted all of the choices that peak my interest on Netflix, Hulu, AND Disney+ (hard to believe, I know). So, I find myself bringing up YouTube on my laptop and going down multiple weird alleyways and corridors of videos. One…
Well hello, 2021! It’s a new year and time for my annual attempt at a “restart” on some of my many annual resolutions. I say “restart”, because – as always – it’s the same list I start on every January 1st (and unfortunately – eventually fail at). I should really call these the new year’s endurance trials, because like any test of will, it’s usually a struggle to see how long many of these will last. Oh, I’m hell out…