This morning Amy and I were getting ready to leave for work when we noticed the sounds of a jackhammer. There’s road repairs going on at the end of the block. At first we thought that must be pretty loud for those living down there if we can hear it so clearly all the way [...]
My birthday was this past weekend but you’d never have known it. My original plans for this past weekend was to be in Charlotte to for the Panthers game on Saturday. But open-heart surgery for my mom changed those plans. On Thursday Amy and I took a bus up to New York. At 5:00 a.m. [...]
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 [...]
After more than a decade living in Washington, my sister moved to a new home last weekend just over the border in Silver Spring, Maryland. After considerably less time in DC (less than three months) I moved with her. Now instead of sleeping on the living room floor of Amy’s one-bedroom apartment, I have my [...]
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 [...]
I really wasn’t a hockey fan growing up, but growing up on Long Island in the 70s and 80s, I really should have been an New York Islanders fan. Not only was this the only professional sports team on Long Island (Go Strong Island!), but they won an amazing four consecutive Stanley Cup Championships between [...]
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 [...]