Hotter Than New Love

There are big things happening in Miami.  The Florida Marlins are now the Miami Marlins.  They will have a new stadium, have hired a new manager (Ozzie Guillen, who recently made an appearance on the cover of ESPN the Magazine…) and are making offers all over the map on free agents.  They recently courted Albert [...]

Sometimes, babies don’t want to eat.  Sometimes, when babies don’t want to eat, they spit their food all over a carpet that already desperately needs to be replaced.  Eventually, you have a tapestry of green carpet and orange carpet and brown carpet that is a majestic sunset of filth. At any rate, at times my [...]

November 30th is the feast day of St. Andrew! One of the more moving prayers associated with St. Andrew is “O Bona Crux!”  St. Andrew considered himself to be unworthy to be crucified in the same way as Christ.  So, he was crucified on an X shapes cross.  He was also bound, not nailed, to [...]

This past Halloween we came across a rare and exotic camo truck!  This particular beauty was of the stripe variety with tree bark abounding and accents of long flowing grass with green moss.  Perfect for any safari or trip down to HyVee grocery store, you’re sure to blend in and not be noticed by any [...]

I ventured over to the school of engineering today to hear a lecture from Boeing’s Chief Technological Officer.  Being in a “social science,” I was looking forward to some good old fashioned capitalist talk.  You know, men who wear ties and not track pants, free bottled water, profits, markets, calculus, etc?  Plus, the school of [...]

“Getting ripped off is just a part of life, son.”  -Me, to my son, circa 2017 Monday, the car wouldn’t start.  I was at work and my wife and kids were across town with the car, that wouldn’t start.  This was a “crisis” of sorts.  We only have one car and that car was across [...]