Yesterday we babysat our niece Lorelai for a couple of hours and spent most of that time at a playground right next to Festival Hall in downtown Racine. All three of us worked up a good sweat as we tackled the monkey bars, slides, and ladders with great relish.... and Lorelai demonstrated just the right
One of the best things about being married is that your spouse thinks of things that never occur to you. . . like yesterday afternoon when Kathy implored me to take a stroll with her through our yard. Not to do anything in particular. Just to enjoy its beauty. I’m embarrassed to say that such
Last night’s spring choir concert at Tremper was titled “How can I keep from singing?” and what a wonderful theme this turned out to be! Polly posed the question “Why do you sing?” to her students and invited each of them them to write their own answer to the question- and many of their responses
Yesterday, Kathy and I had a once -in-a-lifetime encounter with the ancient world. It came when we visited the Milwaukee Public Museum to see “Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible: Ancient Artifacts, Timeless Treasures.” I had read up on the exhibit and interviewed its curator on the morning show, but what really made us bound
For as memorable as the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit was, I am absolutely haunted by something else which I saw at the Milwaukee Public Museum right afterwards. As you leave the scrolls exhibit, you walk right past something which is called “Indian Country” - which features 37 life-size models dressed in spectacular Native American costume
I must be hungry for an extra-large helping of Bewilderment, because on consecutive nights I made a point of planting myself in front of the T.V. and watching the final episodes of two series that I had never watched so much as once. I figured that Lost would leave me feeling exactly that, and I
Yesterday was Carthage’s commencement, and even after all these years on the faculty I am still struck by the curious combination of emotions that are part of this day. The graduates and their families are mostly excited, with a bit of sadness and anxiety perhaps peeking in around the edges. The faculty shares that excitement,
It was a thrilling night of music for both Kathy and me, even though only one of us was at the Rosemont Horizon seeing James Taylor and Carole King in concert. . . and it wasn’t me. Kathy got to go to tonight’s concert because of the thoughtfulness of our dear friends Ted and Vicki
I love it when something happens which awakens us to a new appreciation of how blessed we are. I had that experience a couple of days ago when I was one of the faculty interviewers for a scholarship competition at Carthage. Just over 40 of our finest transfer applicants were part of a competition in
At one point today, Kathy looked over at me and asked “what were you doing ten years ago today?” And I did not have the foggiest notion. I’m fuzzy enough when it comes to what I had for breakfast; when it comes to events of a decade ago, and to sorting out what happened when,
