Tonight I just wanted to celebrate my brother Tim. In three days, Tim will finally board a plane and leave Albuquerque to head halfway around the world- back to his country, back to his family, back to his new life in Melbourne. Over the last three and some years, I’ve been lucky enough to...
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I had the neat experience of meeting a local celebrity last Sunday night. It’s an experience because when you meet a celebrity, you kind of wonder if the magic of who they are in their celebrity-hood will rub off on you at all, and somehow also make you more special. Well, I don’t know...
Read more →This morning, I needed to write, and I wasn’t sure about what, so I have sat here looking around in a little coffee shop downtown, across from the UNM campus. It’s a converted house that is loosely filled with mix-and-match tables and chairs. The wood floors are nice. The walls are white or soft...
Read more →I had to post this little film because it was made by, among others, my nephew Brett while attending the 10th Annual Film Camp for Teens this month, a camp which is promoted by UNM Continuing Education and hosted by DATA Charter High School here in Albuquerque. Brett has been interested in film for...
Read more →My brother and his family have been packing up all this week for a moment that occurs early tomorrow morning- when they will collectively pile into two vehicles, and start a long drive that will take them out of New Mexico. Moving away. Possibly for good. I shouldn’t look at this transition in our...
Read more →Today was a pretty good day: I made some progress at work on creating a generic form generator that can update any table tied to a selected database, including setting some parameters on form fields and placing some checks on numerical fields. This little app can change how quickly building a backend administration area...
Read more →It’s been an up and down weekend, for some reason. This morning at church I was reminded largely as to why: I forget to let God and His Word anchor my life each day. I still too often get up and make everything about myself. Gayle was right when she told me that time,...
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It’s only fitting that I pause for a moment tonight to commemorate the life of my Grandma Myrt. Myrtle Scruggs, my mother’s mother, a sweet and gentle woman except when behind the wheel, passed away last night, July 11, 2012, at about 20 till midnight Kansas time. My mom said her sister Sharon was...
Read more →Tonight, we spent the early part of the evening with Walter, saying goodbye. My sister’s exchange student, Walter departed this evening to head back home to China after spending a school year here in Albuquerque. My brother and his family, my parents, and my sister’s husband’s mother met Walter for dinner at Applebee’s near...
Read more →It was a good Christmas this year. Christmas Eve, I was happy to spend some time with my extended family, Wendy and Eric and Zach, along with Eric’s brother and their collective horde of dachshunds and dachshund derivatives. I had hoped to watch something Christmasy with someone this Christmas, and they came through with “It’s A...
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