Our California Road Trip: Spring Break 2007

For months now, I’ve been wanting to blog about our Spring Break trip to California. I did manage to write about this part of the trip. But not the whole thing. Today, I made a video of our pictures, and I’ve decided it pretty much tells the story better than I could. Here you go: […]

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A JackO-Lantern’s Heart

To the best of my knowledge, Peter Mayer holds the distinction of having written the world’s only Halloween folk song. You may not have heard it, but it’s really pretty popular in the acoustic music world. And when I Googled it, I even discovered a sculpture inspired by it I hope you will not only […]

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Do you remember, the 21st night of September?

“Do you remember the 21st night of september? Love was changing the minds of pretenders While chasing the clouds away” Today is my birthday. And in a deeply personal way, it’s always been awesome to have a birthday associated with such a bitchingly cool “Earth, Wind, and Fire” song. Especially one that I remember from […]

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Watch the World Go By. Literally.

File this under: “Cool Things You Can Find on the Web” The clock/counter below comes from this guy. Even though quantum physics tells us that there is no such thing as time, and that there is no such thing as a “steady state,” it’s easy to forget this due to the way we actually experience […]

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May 29

Like most dates on the yearly calendar, if you look back through history at May 29 you find a lot of interesting things happened. For example, on this date in 526 Antioch was struck by an earthquake that may have killed as many as 250,000 people. In 1453, Mehmed II conquered Constantinople, effectively ending the […]

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Bragging on Dennise (Again)

As I mentioned two weeks ago, I have yet another reason to brag about Dennise. Tonight at SMU, Dennise will receive the SMU Women’s Symposium “Profiles in Leadership Award.” The Profiles in Leadership Award “recognizes Dallas women who exemplify the purpose of the Women’s Symposium, which is to educate women for social and political leadership.” […]

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Valentines Day in the 303rd

Now and then, I get the great honor of bragging about my wife. (I’ll do it again in about two weeks…) This time, it’s a DMN story set to run in this morning’s edition (Feb 15) . A reporter and photog followed Dennise and her staff around for the day, working the angle of what […]

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