Ut humiliter opinor

I watched Citizen Kane for the first time this week.  The DVD has been sitting on my shelf since Christmas, and I finally decided to watch it after getting our snazzy new DVD player in Pennsylvania.  Although I already knew the identity of “Rosebud” going in simply through theatrical osmosis, I found myself taken away [...]

Pennsylvania

The weather wasn’t quite as lovely as we’d hoped for the long weekend. Cold and rainy, in fact. But still a good trip.
We used Dad’s new GPS thingy. It worked great except I didn’t know to change the setting to accept toll roads into the route. So we spent an hour [...]

Dust Biting

We went to Sarah’s wedding on Friday. It was difficult not to feel nostalgic sitting at a table with Kate and Joe and seeing Sarah in the dress and whatnot. Especially driving down Islington towards the highway, like I did so many times after dropping Sarah off at the subway station all those [...]

Garden of Kinders

Here’s a picture of Thea’s kindergarten class that she taught from January to May.

Tumbleweed

Thea and I went to give blood on Tuesday.  They wouldn’t let us since we were in Korea, which is apparently a malaria risk.  On the up side, the nurse took my blood pressure and found it to be quite high.  So now I’m on heart medication pending the results of some blood tests.  Good [...]