We had a relaxing and outstanding 4th of July in Edmond, Oklahoma! One of the highlights of our local parade this morning was seeing Darth Vader riding a Segway!   Besides enjoying the company of family and friends as well as some good food today, I was thrilled to have time (at last) to update my WordPress
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I am very stoked! After waiting about 2 months, my personalized Oklahoma license plates have arrived! I had waited till my Texas plates expired in March to register my 4Runner in Oklahoma. State law requires personal license plate holders to also carry in their vehicle their original, state-assigned license plate. Unlike Texas, which has mandatory
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My 6 year old and I have a father-daughter dance this weekend, and she was concerned this morning that daylight savings time might cause us some problems. (She’s been learning about DST at school lately.) We looked up daylight savings time on WikiPedia, and learned a great deal about the history of this time change
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It’s COLD in central Oklahoma tonight! One of the things I have enjoyed the most since moving to Oklahoma has been wood fires in the evenings. This is a picture of the fire I lit tonight and posted to Flickr: We’ve actually had SEVEN snow days so far this year (and many school districts in
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Thanks to Doug and Brian, I’m offering my own list… 1. In the summer of 1990 when I spent three weeks in England visiting the Upper Heyford Air Force base (then a host to USAF squadrons as well as RAF fliers) I got an incentive ride on a F-111. The weather that day was cloudy
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We’re icebound in northern Oklahoma City (Edmond where I live) with snow expected later today. Winter is falling! The local weather and news people live for days like this I think. It’s like we’ve had a hurricane and the news reporters are on the coastline reporting as it makes landfall, or there is a war
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When the Columbine school shootings happened in 1999 I was teaching at Rush Elementary school in Lubbock, Texas. I remember the next day I was working with a class of first graders, and their teacher remarked to me that the students didn’t really understand where Columbine High School or Colorado was in relation to Lubbock,
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I took a walk this afternoon at lunchtime here in downtown Oklahoma City. I have not been to ground zero in New York City, but I would guess the feeling here in Oklahoma City eleven years after the McVeigh bombing of the Alfred R Murrah Federal Building is quite a bit different. I actually work
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Congrats to Andy Carvin and his wife who did all the work– There’s a new baby in the house! Read the whole story.
The past two weeks have been very demanding, taxing, and challenging for me personally– but also very affirming and motivating as well. Today, I took another vacation day from work so I could share two presentations with educators at “Rethink: The Digital School” events sponsored by Apple Computer. Since the summer of 2005, I have
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Here’s a wonderful gift for that special someone in your life who has everything (or maybe even yourself): a TV-B-Gone remote control. Ever been irritated at an airport by the incessant rant of the CNN reporters on the TVs located by every departure gate? Ever notice how no one in your part of the airport
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This evening I stumbled upon Fritz Nordengren’s website (www.digitalstoryteller.com) and his delightful photo essay on building a fishing boat with his son several years ago. The story page links to Uncle John’s General Store, which sold Fritz his Jon Boat kit and instructions. A friend of mine here in Lubbock recently built a cajun pirogue
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I don’t know about you, but one of the best parts of my elementary school experience was recess. It is not that I was not academically challenged at school– I certainly was in many cases. I attended K-3 at Murfee Elementary School in Lubbock, Texas, half of 4th grade at a Catholic private school in
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I heard a funny and fairly accurate saying from my friend Maria Henderson this evening that relates to the things teachers at different levels love. This may be a paraphrase of something said more eloquently by someone else, but this is how she shared it: Elementary teachers love their kids. Secondary teachers love their content.
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I love living in the 21st century. And I love listening to music! Pandora is a web 2.0 music service (available for free or with a subscription to remove visual web ads) that gives me a superb reason to not listen to my own iTunes music library constantly. Visit the site and start creating your
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I am pleased with a new photo my good friend Mark Umstot of Lubbock took back in December that I am now using on my Technorati profile and personal bio page: I am forgoing the previous computer generated image I used for Technorati, which I actually made awhile back with Hoyle Card Games 3 for
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