We have had our house for sale by owner for four weeks now. It has been a big strain because we hoped for a quick sale and even thought we had it sold a few weeks ago only to have the buyers back out after 24 hours. Last Thursday I arranged for two [...]

It is great to have high speed Internet again after being without it for over a week. We are settling in nicely here in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. We all really like this location and we are enjoying the many conveniences such as tons of places to shop for groceries and other [...]

We’ve been going through a lot of uncertainty about our move back to the Chicago area. For one thing the time it is taking to get our Indiana house ready to show to potential buyers is enormous. There is so much to do and it is overwhelming. My brothers Dan and Tim [...]

Since deciding to leave Indiana, everything has been up for grabs and life is very stressful. Michele and I have spent most of the past week trying to get our house ready to put on the market. This includes new gravel for the driveway, new glass for one of the front windows, painting [...]

I’ve been silent for a long time now. Just a note to explain part of the reason why: I have decided to leave academia once again and go back to my old job at Endeavor Information Systems, Inc. We are shopping for a house somewhere in the west or northwestern suburbs of [...]

[Update: I feel obligated to add a bit more to my posting on this topic. See changes/additions in brackets below.]
I haven’t joined the hundreds (thousands?) of others who commented negatively on Michael Gorman’s well-publicized anti-blogging diatribe a few months back[, until now.] I know [just] enough about him and his background to [...]

Pundit Faces Pie Attack in Speech at Earlham College
I have no idea who William Kristol is, but apparently he is a conservative commentator who made a speech this week at Earlham College. In the process, an Earlham student threw a pie in his face.
Now, Earlham is a consortial partner with my institution [...]

When You Don’t Fit In
This article in The Chronicle of Higher Education caught my eye today. Although the details are somewhat different, the reality is the same. Michele and I definitely do not fit in here in rural, east central Indiana. I wonder sometimes if we ever will. Or if I [...]

Tonight I proved the wonders of technology. I video chatted (is that a word?) with my wife and kids in the Chicago area, then video chatted afterward with my family in east central Illinois. All of this done from the comfort of my own couch at home in Indiana. Made possible by [...]

OK, so it is now 2005. Ho hum. One of my unspoken resolutions of the new year is to be more positive In that spirit, here are some nice, happy, positive things to write about:
One of the positive things that’s happened lately comes out of a big negative. We were [...]