Otherwise, why would He make it so difficult to get my friggin’ knee fixed? (Yes, there is a house post on the burner but you’ll just have to wait for it).
Remember how I finally – finally! – went to Casper to get my knee looked at? And how the doctor had said something to the [...]
Entries from June 2007
June 27, 2007
God Likes Me Just the Way I Am
June 18, 2007
I Totally Called It
In the winter of ‘96-’97 I was in Phoenix, recently laid off from my dream job and slinging lattes in purgatory. “Winter” in this sense is a relative term: it was cooler than 100 degrees at night; Christmas lights hung from palm trees and reindeer ornaments in gravel yards. But with no real seasons to [...]
June 13, 2007
Paul’s Sweet Soccer Skillz
The soccer fields at the high school serve as all-purpose community pick-up game centers during the summer: soccer on Tuesday and Thursday; ultimate frisbee on Wednesday; open fields on Monday. Lander draws athletes, alright, but we have no rec league soccer because there simply aren’t enough adults to form a leauge – they’re all climbing, [...]
June 9, 2007
To Subaru, Or Not to Subaru?
That is the question. Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous repair costs, or to take wrenches against a sea of troubles and by opposing, end them? To shift: to speed; no more; and by a speed we say to end the bore and the thousand natural hazards that [...]
June 7, 2007
More Weird Dreams
Over the years I’ve heard teachers talk about the dreams they have beginning a week or so before school starts. I ain’t had no high-fallutin’ psychology trainin’, but I’m guessing – and this is just a wacky hunch – that those dreams are related to their anxieties about a profession that is about managing anxieties - [...]
June 6, 2007
School’s Out (for Summer)
Well well well. School’s out, mostly, and yours truly is in a very weird place. For three consecutive mornings I’ve woken up confused and/or feeling weird. Monday was like waking up still drunk (which I wasn’t but thanks for your concern); Tuesday I woke up with the grumbling remnants of the screaming headache I’d had [...]
