Archive for June, 2009

Father’s Day

My father is a much more mysterious presence in my life than my mother. From about the age of ten until well into my adolescence, he traveled for work. He managed to go to pretty much all 50 of the states. Before the age of 10, we were buddies. I would [...]

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Funniest thing I’ve seen all month.

see more Lolcats and funny pictures
From LOL CATS = I can haz cheesburger

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Bar Meeting round up for later but I got to give props.

My life has gotten ridiculously busy but I will say
If your car breaks down in Hot Springs while at an “annual meeting” or Convention
Burks and Mahoney are the wrecker service to use. They went above and beyond the call of duty during my unfortunate automobile difficulties while attending the Annual Meeting of the ABA. [...]

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Fitness and other craziness.

It’s amazing how the minute you commit to posting daily on your blog that life will suddenly get a lot busier so that you’re too busy living to write all the time.
I have made a new commitment to fitness. I am by all accounts fat. Back in the day (like high school and college), [...]

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Sunday

This editorial depressed the hell out of me.

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MY HERO: Schuyler

My heroes for today are the members of the Rummel Hudson family: Julie, Rob, and Schuyler.
Schuyler was born with an extremely rare brain disease called Bilateral perisylvian polymicrogyria. This disorder means that. among other things, Schuyler will more than likely never be able to talk. She uses technology that has been dubbed [...]

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This bugs me.

Okay I know that this NaBloPoMo thing for June has a theme of heroes. I guess I’ll say that my hero is someone more laid back than me. More specifically, someone who didn’t get annoyed about this. One one level, it seems fairly petty and on another level, it doesn’t. So [...]

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Listy Fresh . . . or a list of favorites

Since I like to read, watch movies, and listen to music, I tend to respect those who can write, sing, write songs, write books, and make movies a lot. Those creative artists are my heroes for today. (it’s part of that nablopomo thing)
So here are my list of favorite books

Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov
The Sound [...]

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Running day. every day

“The Hero lies in you” — Mariah Carey
Tomorrow is National Running Day.
According to the website.
National Running Day is a national initiative whereby many of the major organizations within the running industry are joining forces in an unprecedented unified effort to nationally and locally promote running as a healthy, easy, and accessible form of [...]

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No kitten left hungry.

My family grew up in a 100 year old two story house with a porch and a cellar. The porch was about 3 feet off the ground and as a result, there is about a one and a half foot space between the bottom of the house and the ground. This housed among [...]

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