Ruminations

The kids and I decided on Sunday night that we were going to make a movie. It started out as an Indiana Jones thing, but for lack of props morphed into something else entirely. After about 3 hours of filming and 5 hours of post-production work, we have more-or-less finished our premiere production:
Laser Boy & [...]

My cousin Mary is very involved with student exchange programs up in Massachusetts where she lives. The organization she works with is trying hard to find some suitable host families for a passel of soviet honors students who are coming over to the states. With seven people already under our roof, we’re not ready to [...]

Barry writes an interesting piece on why vocalists are oft maligned, specifically among Jazz players, but also among the music community at large. While you’re there, he’s got a good bit on Independence Day: “…wherever you are on this globe, raise a toast to those remarkable people who daringly called some things self-evident that are [...]

Yesterday we had church at a campground along the San Marcos River rather than our usual place on the University campus. After the service was concluded, we all ate lunch, had watermelon, and went to play down in the nearby rapids for a couple of hours. We all had fun splashing around, skipping stones, and [...]

Emily arrived home last night about midnight after Kathy picked her up from the Austin airport. She and Kathy were both soaking wet after having “fallen in the river” on the way home. Abigail and Maggie were both thrilled to see their sister; Liam was so deeply asleep that we eventually gave up on alerting [...]