/ Call us nutty but we booked it—a trip to Europe with the wee one. Grey will be just over one year old when we head off to Switzerland to visit his Uncle Todd and Aunt Pee Wee with a stopover in London on the way home to see my high school bud...

School goes fine, but busy. The classes I teach are going fairly well as we steam into the last third of the semester, but at this stage most students seems to be running out of gas and then it gets tricky. It’s always a bit of a mystery to figure out...

Well, I have to say that I find the Premier League a lot more interesting this time of year than I did last year, although I’m pretty sure the outcome will be more of the same. My preseason pick was Chelski and I don’t see much to dissuade me at this...

Well, blogging sure ranks pretty low on my “to do” list I guess. The schedule nowadays could best be described as “crushing” most weeks; I have to hunker down and work quite hard in order to free up enough time to play soccer on Saturdays. It’s a sorry...

Sheesh, looks like this blog has received a cruel reminder of where it ranks in my life. Really, there are so few extra minutes in the day that this space gets neglected. Even this post has to be short so I can get caught up on schoolwork. After...