Monthly Archives: December 2009
Emma’s Now A Baller [Basketball]
There have been and continue to be plenty of sports played by the kiddos. But basketball has never really been of much interest to the kids. Madysen and Speed “played” one winter in our Cleveland sojourn (it was more mass … Continue reading
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The Adams Family, Buckley Interviewing, And An Impoverished Life [Books]
Seems that, without hoping to, I’ve read now read 52 books this year with almost a full month to go. And the 52nd book? Richard Brookhiser’s America’s First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918 about the impact of John Adams’ family for … Continue reading
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Teeth Present And Accounted For: Soccer [Madysen]
It seems like just the other day soccer was moving teeth and breaking faces, but Madysen is already back on the tournament circuit. Last weekend, she and I were in College Station (a terrible, terrible place in my mind, mostly … Continue reading
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Wright’s Architecture, Hamilton’s Bank, And Susie’s Viewpoint [Books]
I’ve always been a little enamored with the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. One of those things were I like most of it (Fallingwater, e.g.), but if I were to build a house tomorrow, it wouldn’t look anything like Wright’s … Continue reading
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Gentility Abounds In Tournaments: Soccer [Madysen]
While Speed and I were in Norman for the Bedlam beatdown, Madysen was in a little soccer tournament in town, the D’Feeters Thanksgiving Showcase. I did make it to the first game on Friday morning–an absolutely beautiful day in Dallas–against … Continue reading
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Bedlam Ending To Season: OU [Football]
Following the Thanksgiving, um, festivities, Speed and I spent Saturday in Norman for a little Bedlam football. It’s been a tough year for the OU football team, and a loss to OSU–at home–would have been a real disappointing cherry on … Continue reading
Shippping News, Pop Culture Miscellany, A Potential Future [Books]
I thought I had read all the Pulitzer Prize winners for the last couple decades, but apparently I missed at least one. No more; Madysen is reading Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News, the 1993 Pulitzer winner, and I confiscated it … Continue reading
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If Holidays Are For Family, I’m For Fewer Holidays: Thanksgiving [Holidays]
Holidays with my family is as painful as it gets for me. Add one sister as a new Aggie, two sisters bringing dudes (one an Aggie himself, the other, um, well, words don’t really do justice), and an “Amazing Race” … Continue reading
15 And Counting [Birthday]
So two weeks ago today, it was Speed’s birthday. And not just any birthday, but his 15th, which is a sea-change event for all of us. More on that below. As has become standard practice around here lately, birthday activities … Continue reading
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