Just in case you missed it in Sunday’s paper, the rules are up for The Transcript’s annual Christmas Story contest, which I am coordinating this year.
It’s pretty clear it’s a big deal. I’ve taken several phone calls in the last week or two from folks wondering about this year’s contest. Entries are due two weeks [...]
My daughter is in her second year playing trombone in the junior high band. I’m not totally sure how the daughter of a flute player and a violinist wound up with such an instrument, but that’s another story for another time.
What I like is seeing her taking an honest look at hers and her band’s [...]
My 5-year-old has quite a full head of hair. It’s thick, sometimes curly, and always pretty wild in the morning.
And it almost always is fulled with tangles, no matter what sort of combination of shampoo, conditioner or shampoo-conditioner pairing that I’ve tried.
Add to it that she’s pretty tender-headed and it gets to be sort of [...]
So I was going to be picking up my 5-year-old in the early evening after getting off work tonight. Instead, I’m sitting here.
The culprit? Yeah, you guessed it. The mall.
I certainly trust her mom to keep her out of too much trouble there, but my wallet and checkbook are making little whimpering noises from across [...]
Being away from work for a few days apparently makes your brain stop working right.
In addition to me messing up a few things that ended up not going into print on the right day, I just realized I managed to almost duplicate my last blog about trick-or-treating.
Sorry.
Too much candy.
Not enough brain cells.
I’ll do better tomorrow.
Halloween used to be more simple. You had some trick-or-treating down a few nearby streets and then got back home at a fairly reasonable hour, because there was a five-out-of-seven chance that the holiday fell on a school night.
Maybe you stayed up slightly later than usual, but you were back at it the next day.
Now [...]
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