neato-skeeto kids, a snakey question and an update

This evening we attended a football banquet for Tony and Tee. Tony lettered again, which was a really great ending to his high school football days. I hope that if he’d like to play football in college, he’ll get an opportunity to do so.
To our excitement, Tee won the Coaches’ Award for the freshman [...]

re: my project

Update: My project is behind schedule. I’ve been having slow connectivity issues, after some power outages. I’m afraid our router and modem are on their last legs. I’ll press on, but my new projected completion date is Tuesday the 21st.

More Let’s Yak About Art and an update

This will be a brief Let’s Yak About Art. Artist and author Eric Carle is the subject of a special exhibit at the Tacoma Museum of Art. The exhibit opened October 7th, and will be around until January 21, 2007.
An article in the Seattle PI discussed the exhibit and a recent visit [...]

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short hiatus for a project and a bloggy warning

I received the alert today about the impending switch from Blogger format to the beta Blogger design. I thought, “What the hell,” and switched. If you haven’t switched over yet, I caution you to wait and research your options. I wasn’t pleased with the widget selections, and when I read [...]

Let’s Yak About Art.. it’s been awhile

Blogging about Chris Harris’ photographs got the arty fluids flowing.
Let’s yak a bit about the art of Kathe Kollowitz. She was a printmaker, sculpter, drawer and artist extraordinaire. She chronicled the journeys of the poor, the edges of society, in Germany between the 19th and 20th century. You can read a [...]

Slathering on cancer-juice ….. but doesn’t it make me look pretty?

When I took some classes at the UW to improve my writing skills, one of my fellow classmates chose as a assignment subject the dangers of U.S. cosmetics. It was the first I’d heard about the possible dangers of parabens. I knew tolulene possessed bad juju, but what was dibutyl [...]

Let’s Yak About Art and an explanation

Back in July, I began to relate to you, my readers, what my trip to the Bowron Lakes Provincial Park was like. I shared up through Day 4, and then I stopped. I started to type up part of Day 5, but lost heart. I was still so excited about the fact [...]

fearmongering with a little side of fright

I don’t know why I did it– maybe it was the nausea seeking company. I wasn’t feeling well at all yesterday afternoon, so I crawled into bed and turned on the tube for some white noise. I ended up watching the national news on one of the big three stations, and I was transfixed. [...]

Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift Wins a Distinguished Alumnus award from Seattle University Law School

Swift is representing Salim Hamdan, who is currently held at Guantanamo Bay. This is the Navy lawyer that challenged the tribunal system favored by the Bush administration; he took his challenge all the way to the Supreme Court and won. For his trouble, Swift has been passed up for promotion and will be [...]