When I was at the University of Portland, Oregon, that is, I was a card carrying member of the Procrastination Club…Never Put off Until Tomorrow What You Can Put Off Until the Day After Tomorrow. But it wasn’t true, I lied [well, it was the 60’s we all lied about something]. I like to be done….
Category: Musing
What? Wait? It’s July?
Yes, well. I guess it is, July that is. Had a bit of a pickle in getting the conference registration up and running, although I should have been prepared for that possibility. Ho Hum, wasn’t. It did go up. It’s different and people don’t like different. They say they do, but they don’t. Well, it’s…
family…
over Memorial Day weekend our family, grown now by two, met in Front Royal, Virginia to celebrate birthdays. Specifically, Bayley’s.Because it was the big one. From left to right, starting in the back, Tom, me, Bayley, then Greg, Meghan and Dan. Nice, yes? It was a great time. We visited the Skyline Caverns. Tom, Greg…
graduation….
June 6, 1964, forty eight years ago. Wow! I graduated from Bishop Alemany High School in San Fernando, California. For me it was a sunny Saturday starting off with a baccalaureate mass, then off to the campus up in the foothills between the Eden Park Cemetery and the Catholic Holy Cross Hospital for graduation. Garnet caps…
thirty-one days…
Ever wonder why February only got twenty eight days, April, June, September and November only got thirty days, but seven months got thirty one days. I mean couldn’t they have distributed the 365 a little more equitably? I mean every month could have gotten thirty days, but there’s always that straggly little problem with the…