Michele isn’t feeling well this a.m. so we won’t be going to church.  Keegan stayed overnight at a friend’s house to work on a big school project, so things around here are a bit more quiet than usual.  Today is my beautiful wife’s birthday! so that makes it an extra special day.
I’ve been watching a [...]

The evening of the day that version 2.3 of WordPress was released, I took the plunge and installed it. I have had few problems. I can’t say enough positive things about the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin. It makes the task of keeping my blog software updated much easier.

A new song by Mark Harris is the inspiration for this post. Go listen to it on Mark’s MySpace site, http://www.myspace.com/markharris.
My kids are growing up and changing sooo fast. Honestly, I mourn the passing of time. It is very hard for me. NOT so hard for my wife I am joking!!! She [...]

I am curious: Do you ever get into a funk? If so, do you understand the reasons why? Please, if you read this blog, take a moment to add a comment to this post. Thanks.

Last week, Valerie Bross, co-chair of this year’s NASIG Continuing Education Committee (CEC), asked for proposals for CEC funding for the coming year.  I decided to submit a proposal for creating a pilot online course focusing on best practices and case studies for e-resources management.  I don’t know yet if it will be accepted or if [...]

Check out our latest photo album from a visit to one of our favorite places, the Shedd Aquarium:

Chicago is a beautiful city and the following photo shows it.  Yesterday we were at the lakefront to visit the Shedd Aquarium for the first time since March.  It was a beautiful day, sunny and warm but not too warm.  Lots of people were out and about enjoying the day, including lots of people out [...]

I recall one of my favorite people, Steve Irwin, sometimes shouting “Danger, danger!” in his broad Australian accent when dealing with a particularly recalcitrant animal on his show.  His words came to mind when I recently found out that Apple’s newest retail store opening is in an upscale (of course) shopping mall about a 1/2 [...]

[Update:  In a really interesting twist, the photo to which I refer in the NYT article has apparently been removed sometime in the last several hours.  Instead of the original photo, the NYT decided to substitute a photo of someone holding the original photo.  Go figure.]
A picture is worth a thousand words, or so we [...]

After a long hiatus, I’m beginning the Encyclopedia of Me series again.  The subject for this post is brothers.  Brothers have been a big part of my life; I have four of them.  A fifth brother, Donny, who would have been my third oldest brother, died when he was little.
I am the youngest of seven children.  [...]