I haven’t worked in the traditional sense that employed people work since mid-June 2008 when motor neuron disease helped me slam close the door on my eight year teaching career. Sure, I’ve been busy writing two blogs and outlining my memoir, but neither of those pursuits have been anything more than a labor of love. [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Clem Snide’s Hungry Bird
Posted in Music on February 25, 2009 | 6 Comments »
72 Hours in Rocklin
Posted in Vacation on February 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Fehmeen, Emma, and I just got back to the “City of Good Living”, aka San Carlos, after a fun-filled three day vacation at Auntie Alia’s house in Rocklin. Although not as hectic and fast-paced as a tour of Washington DC or as sun-drenched and boozy as a stay in Cancun, our little family’s short trip [...]
Emma’s Not So Infinite Playlist
Posted in Emma, Music on February 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Music has been a major part of my daughter Emma’s life for the past nineteen months. For those of you keeping score at home, you are probably thinking to yourselves, ‘Isn’t the Bug only about ten months old?’ and ‘Doesn’t the old man know his own daughter’s age?’ Well, the answer to both of those [...]
Eddie Rabbitt Meets Simon and Garfunkel on 19th Avenue
Posted in Life on February 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I like living in my head sometimes. The relative solitude serves me well. It’s a place that I can go to get away from the world swirling around outside my being. I am alone with my thoughts and ideas and dreams. In my head, I can relive key moments of the past or try to [...]
Six Word Memoirs of Our Own
Posted in Life, Memoir on February 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
A quick disclaimer: the idea behind today’s entry is not my own. I originally heard about the notion in an email I received from a coworker but after a little investigation, I discovered a magazine called SMITH to be the literary entity most likely responsible for the concept of the Six Word Memoir being sent [...]
A Break in the (Shit)Stormy Weather
Posted in Treatments on February 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I would like to take the opportunity to provide you, dear reader, with an update of sorts from a previous ALS Boy blog entry entitled The Perfect Shitstorm. In that column, I recall airing out the somewhat disheveled state of my ALS treatment network that seemingly and simultaneously collapsed right around the holidays. I [...]
Rants and Raves Revisited Volume 1 Issue 6
Posted in Rants and Raves on February 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Hey all of y’all, and welcome to another issue of R and R Revisited, aka R Cubed. I hope you had an enjoyable weekend doing whatever it was you did. Can you believe that it’s already February? Just two days ago, it felt like January. Next month, it’ll be March. Now before I get into [...]
Super Bowl Pool Party in Real Time
Posted in Allegedly Funny on February 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Here we are, Super Bowl Sunday, Steelers versus Cardinals, about 20 minutes before kickoff. The pre-game hype is reaching it’s apex. The so-called experts have weighed in on their predictions (NBC is split, 5 for the Steelers, 5 for the Cardinals).
Around these parts, the snacks are being eaten and the man soda is being chugged. [...]
