I’ve spent the last three days subbing at Lewis and Clark High school, where the students are generally well-behaved, and the instructions simple. I found a stack of Computer Arts magazines and read them all. They were so inspiring to me! I can’t believe the amazing things that people so with computer graphics software…makes me [...]

I want to apoligize for anyone in my path lately…the students in my classroom, the guests who eat in my section, the other team members at Red Robin… Tom marked my arm VOID the other night. How did he know? How did this happen? Within this year I have had several opportunities expire. Some were [...]

A year and a half ago I completed a marathon (that’s 26.2 miles folks). I say complete because it’s the only verb that seems appropriate. I didn’t run the whole thing. I didn’t meet my goal. Still, after completing the marathon, my goals changed, and in retrospect I could see that the preparation for such [...]

do you know the feeling? You’re traveling along just fine…enjoying yourself…having a snack…and then the lights flicker, the cabin pressure drops, and the world is not what it once was. It’s a deep plunge. For a train, an inch makes all the difference between Chicago and Austin. It doesn’t take much to derail me. The [...]

This is Bruno! This is the quilt that I’ve been working on! *chuckles* My exciting Saturday night at home, quilting! Think that you’re a geek for sitting at home on Saturday night watching tv? It could be worse, you could be quilting. =) The funny thing is I like it. I choose to be here. [...]

I just have a question…is it possible to fall in love again? I mean, how does it all work? Maybe what I’m really asking is: does anyone really get over their first love? Is the second better than the first, or is the second..well, second? Maybe it’s not the same for everyone…and while I ponder [...]

Why is it that I really get going at night? Here it is, past one in the morning, and I KNOW that I should go to bed because if my phone rings at 6am with a teaching job, I need to go. I remember last year, when I was teaching in Mukilteo, I would promise [...]

Something (what was it?) today reminded me of Lahaina. I traveled there with my best travel companion, Anna. It wasn’t a place that we had planned to visit on Maui, it just sort of happened. I remember the day well. We had woken up early to drive to the top of Haleakala National Park to [...]

There was foam on the floorboard of my car after I got the car washed. yikes. That however, was just the first thing that I noticed… the second was that someone hit my car. There is a big dent in the trunk and paint is scratched off…um…and no one around. I noticed it after the [...]