This weekend we did some special things with Patty, Maegan, and Darah. On Saturday we all went to the Washington Monument (Amy and Steve too). We’ve all been there before but I got tickets months ago to go inside and up to the top for the first time. The weather was absolutely perfect and you [...]
My family drove up to visit me for the first time since I began working in Washington DC back in March. It’s taken so long because they needed a time when Patty was between semesters at nursing school and Maegan was not in school or camp either. Patty had her final exam on Monday and [...]
Yesterday was exactly one year since the untimely demise of CMS-TV and my last day working at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. And today is exactly one year since I became unemployed for the first time in my life. It took nine months but I eventually got a great new job in Washington, DC. This had got me [...]
Yesterday I got on the Metro Red Line at Farragut North. Whenever possible, I get on the 2nd car at the middle door because I know that it will conveniently let off right in front of the only platform escalator where I get off at the Van Ness station. This particular day the train arrived [...]
I haven’t even been living in Washington a full month yet and my time here is already drawing to an end. No, I’m not moving back to Charlotte. Amy bought a new house today in Silver Spring, Maryland. When she moves, I’ll be moving to Maryland with her. It’ll actually be my second tour as [...]
Two weeks after starting my new job in Washington, I took the Megabus this weekend for my first trip back home to Charlotte. I got in late Friday night and I had all Saturday with the family. In the morning we went to get new family photos taken. But then violent storms blew in in [...]
Yesterday was Darah’s first day at her new child care. She loved it! She met her new teacher and all the new kids and she had a blast. When I dropped her off the kids were just on their way out for their first outside play session and Darah just jumped right in running and [...]
Yesterday was Darah’s last day at her child care. She’s been going to the preschool program at Central Steele Creek Presbyterian Church since last summer. It’s a great. program and Darah loved it. It was a Tuesday through Thursday program from 9am to 1pm. That worked out great until now but with me moving to [...]
By the end of the month I will move to Washington, DC. Patty and the kids are not coming with me… yet. Nearly a year ago, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board of Education voted to eliminate my entire department as part of a recession-based Reduction In Force that included more than 500 teachers layoffs too. Our [...]
On Thursday night I traveled to Washington, DC for a job interview. To get there, I took a car to the airport, flew to DC, and then traversed the Metro to get to my sister’s house where I crashed the night before my interview. The interview went very well on Friday morning and then I [...]