My oldest friend and I looked through our grade school newspapers last night. I hadn’t looked at them in many years. And I had a few entries over the years, plus honor roll mentions and a paper coeditor mention during eighth grade. I was struck by an eight year old’s simple but beautiful (maybe I am [...]
Archive for March, 2009
The seeds of future blogdom…
Posted in blogging, tagged blogging, childhood on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Blah about blogging…
Posted in blogging, tagged blogging, negativity on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For most of the past year, I’ve been fairly positive about blogging. Sure, I’ve had my blogging lulls, but it’s given me an excuse to find pictures of deserts. The last week or so, though, I’ve been somewhat negative. I haven’t had much to blog about, which means if I really want to blog about [...]
It’s spring!
Posted in weather, tagged anti-rant, spring on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s 6:44 AM – spring is FINALLY here! Time to go outside in the 26 degree air and party!
A tribute to a grand Irishman, John Farrell
Posted in genealogy, tagged Benton County, genealogy, st patricks day on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Saint Patrick’s Day, I like to toast my Irish ancestors. Today, it’s great great grandpa John Farrell, who came to the US around 1848 from Kilkenny County Ireland. He landed in New Orleans, met up at some point there with my great great grandma Bridget Kelly, and married her in Vicksburg, Mississippi in January [...]
My old school…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged childhood, Lane Tech on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lane Technical High School, Chicago, Illinois
Time to go back to my old school (see above) and take a trip down memory lane with this Facebook quiz…
1. In your senior year, did you date someone from your high school?
Nope
2. Did you marry someone from your high school?
Nope
3. Did you carpool to school?
Yes – [...]
2 flooded basements in nine days
Posted in weather, tagged flooding, rant on March 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Once again, I am dealing with a flooded basement and I am mad. Chicago supposedly has a deep tunnel project that has been under construction for 30 years. Yet it can’t handle two to three inch rains, which seem to be increasing around here (like once in every nine days.) I spent an hour bailing [...]
Swingtown is gone…sniff…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Swingtown on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’d been waiting to see if this show would come back for a second season. The acting was good and the stories were great, too. It did remind me of 1976, the year it was set. It was interesting to watch because it was written from an adult perspective and I was experiencing that year as a kid, [...]
Frozen brain waves…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogging on March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m in another blogging lull…after last week’s 3-inch basement flood and the resumption of our icebox complete with nonstop lake-effect snow, my brain is frozen – almost as frozen as my cheeks were this morning sweeping away the nonstop lake-effect. I’m even bored with myself…zzzzzzzz…
