An Old Faithful
What is the oldest piece of clothing you own? Before you throw out a Christening dress, First Communion dress, or some other thing from your childhood that you’ve saved to pass down to a future generation, allow me to narrow it down a little more. What is the oldest piece of clothing you own that you can still wear? For…
More Firsts
A couple other firsts I need to share. Friday was M’s first high school football game as a student. I think the night may have set an unreasonable expectation for the next four years. CHS played Noblesville, a large, suburban school that generally isn’t very good at football. It was an utterly perfect night, in the low-70s at kickoff with…
Andrew
I have lived in Indianapolis for 16 years. Saturday night was the third biggest sports night in the city over that span. 1: Colts beat Patriots to win the AFC title in 2007 2: Colts beat the Bears to win the Super Bowl 3: Andrew Luck announces his retirement This may seem like weird ordering to outsiders, but the vibe…
Fall Kid Sports
Fall sports have begun. Right now we are actively involved in five sports, with another to begin tomorrow. Joyous times. The fall kickball season started last Monday. We have nine teams at St. P’s this year, and got off to a great 7-2 start on opening day. The two teams to lose? My girls’ teams. C’s team, which I’m helping…
Reaching for the Stars, Vol. 30
Chart Week: August 21, 1982 Song: “Love Is In Control (Finger on the Trigger)” – Donna Summer Chart Position: #12, 9th week on the chart. Peaked at #10 the week of September 25. My goodness this was a great week! As I was listening to parts of this countdown, song-after-song jumped out at me. I would settle on a song…
Changing Neighborhoods
A busy start to the week, but hopefully things will begin to slow down during the day and I can transition some of the thoughts in my head to the screen. Speaking of this site, I’m about to undertake some fairly major, behind-the-scenes changes. I’ve been having issues for months with my hosting service. There were lots of little issues,…
Friday Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/562FfVk3cqXe3VltXplOkI?si=yzx548WRSsm5eR9WHPXudg “Just for Once” – The Building. This song fits right in with the music I’ve been digging the most in recent years. Especially that guitar solo in the middle, which sounds like a combination of Wilco and The War on Drugs. I had no idea until about three minutes ago that the main creative force in this band is…
Back at It
Whew! It has been a very busy couple of days. Wednesday was the first day at St. P’s, C starting 7th grade and L starting 5th. Which meant it was also our first day dropping off at two schools. The morning went about as good as possible. C was already awake when I got up, everyone was ready to get…
What I’m Watching: July/Early August
As usual, I’m late in starting what I want to be a new, regular feature of the blog. I already let you know what I’m reading and listening to. Stealing from Jason Kottke, I want to start sharing the other media that I consume each month. This was meant to be shared at the beginning of August, but I wanted…
Friday Vid
Too busy of a week to build up a list of songs to share. So, once again I’ll cop out and share/write about a song that was featured this week on The Number Ones. ”Rhinestone Cowboy” – Glen Campbell Bet you didn’t expect this! But I have a good story about this song that makes it worth sharing. I loved…