Last night was the second and final “Pirates of Penzance” performance at Carthage - and with a successful opening night behind us, Corinne Ness and I were both hoping that the cast wouldn’t find themselves coasting over-confidently through the second night, resting on their laurels. As it turns out, we need not have worried about
Ash Wednesday services got snowed out this past week, so the traditional Imposition of Ashes happened this morning at church, right after the confession of sins. One of the consequences of doing the imposition of ashes today rather than Wednesday night is that there were many more people - and secondly, many of those people
The photograph may be a bit blurry - sorry about that - but it still manages to capture a wildly chaotic and hilarious moment from the “Pirates of Penzance” cast party last night at our house. Flat on his back, fighting for his life, is cast member Mark Bracken. And that tan brown blur on
We had dinner tonight at Applebee’s with Polly and Mark and our niece Lorelai and had ourselves a wonderful time. My favorite moment came when Aunt Kathy needed to engage in a bit of diversionary conversation when Lorelai was momentarily unhappy about something. “You know what I want us to do when you come to
What’s in a name? Everything! Today’s Carthage Choir rehearsal - the first rehearsal of the new semester, thanks to yesterday’s weather-related cancellation - began in rather surprising and inspiring fashion. Instead of starting with vocal warm ups, Mr. Noble announced that he was going to introduce the members of the choir to one another, in
This is shaping up to be the worst snowstorm that Southeastern Wisconsin has seen since February 10, 1960. That makes it the worst storm around these parts in my lifetime, since I was born on February 16, 1960. I’m a bit staggered by that - as if this storm wasn’t already staggering enough. This storm
Once I arrived at home, I was confronted by the same challenge facing every other homeowner in southeastern Wisconsin. . . digging out. We haven’t seen any sign of our mysterious Snow Elf in about a week, so the only elves on duty today were Kathy and me. And unfortunately, we had to deal with
Three blog entries in one day- can you tell that I had some time to kill tonight? Ash Wednesday evening service was cancelled at Holy Communion - just as they seemed to be cancelled in most of the free world tonight - and by our calculations, it was only the second time in my twenty
Last night during the Super Bowl, when the tension of the game started getting to me and I needed to distract myself, ( I was rooting for the Giants ) I picked up the phone and called Weston Noble to see when he was planning on returning to Carthage after being away for five weeks.
Don’t worry. I don’t mean that kind of adult humor. As I sit here watching the Super Bowl and wonder whether or not the Patriots are going to manage to achieve a perfect season (with 2:43 left on the clock, they are ahead of the Giants- boo hiss) I am thinking back to 1973 and
