February Books
Another productive month, even with a couple wrinkles thrown in. I had my first abandoned book of the year in February. Leif G.W. Persson’s Between Summer’s Longing and Winter’s End has been on my To Read list for a few years now. Occasionally I would breeze by it at the library and take a look. But between its size (550+…
On Perry And The Guys
The college hoops lull has arrived, a brief pause before all the big conferences kick off their tournaments over the next 72 hours. An opportunity to reflect on the regular season and think about the real tournament that is just over a week away. In my case it’s a chance to begin working up a healthy case of nerves about…
⦿ Friday Links
My Instapaper queue is crammed full of articles. Unfortunately for all of you, the bulk of them relate to a couple topics I’m really into now that won’t necessarily be that interesting to anyone else. So just a few things to share this week. This is really long, and really geeky, but here is a very detailed look at how…
Fun At The Grocery
Spring is nigh. Sure, it snowed here today, and is expected to again on Saturday. But it is also supposed to jump into the 70s next week. Mornings and evenings are getting a little brighter each day as our daylight stretches out. Spring training baseball has begun. My anticipation of warmer days is like a little kid’s on December 10…
Our Other Winter Court
I’ve shared quite a bit about L’s first basketball season. C didn’t play a winter sport, but did go to a softball clinic Saturday and had a great time. She’s excited to play both softball and go through her first kickball season this spring. That leaves M, who is in her second year of volleyball. Unfortunately, we had a lot…
The Dozen
It is that time of year again. No, not a birthday for one of my girls. Although it may as well be. Time for my annual “KU Won the Big 12 (Again)” post. Feel free to skip if you’re sick of these. I’ll probably end up repeating myself from the last 11 anyway. Twelve. Even I will admit that is…
A Window Is Closing
I’m feeling some tremors just below the surface of our house that signal a change is coming. M is growing up. This morning I was thinking about how that affects how I share stories about her. I realized that it’s one thing to share a story that could be embarrassing to one of your kids when they are a toddler.…
Coaching Follow Up
One thing I forgot to include in my post this morning that Stace’s comment kind of reminded me of, was a Tweet from writer Drew Magary over the weekend. https://twitter.com/drewmagary/status/701159608707117056 That is 100% true. We were getting our asses kicked on the offensive boards Saturday. I think the other team had something like 15 OBs as they opened up a…
Kid Hoops Update
We closed out L’s first ever basketball season over the weekend, losing by 10 in our tournament semifinals. We were down by 20 at one point but somehow whittled that down to 8 with a couple minutes left. We ended up going 2–5 for the year, only beating the other St. P’s team both times we played them. Coincidentally perhaps,…
⦿ Friday Links
We’ll kick this week’s edition off with a couple music-related links. Stereogum is excellent when it comes to putting together long profiles of artists just before they release a new album. Ryan Leas’ deep look at the recording process of The War On Drugs’ Lost In The Dream played a huge role in setting expectations for that album. Here he…