My youngest kid, Gavin, has been adrift in a sea of choices for most of his life. He has trouble deciding what he wants out of life; other than a recent brief flirtation with a desire to become Evil Overlord and a much earlier desire to grow up to become a… Read full post »

He was big and old, losing his hair, short of breath when he walked, and at the end of his life when we met. He wasn't all that bright, either.

Everyone he'd loved had left him, and I took him in because he had no where else to go. I really… Read full post »

I've gone to/worked for universities for the past 30 years. One of the first lessons I learned was that it's easy to be broken on the rocks of university bureaucracy; so when you can't fight it, you learn to go with the university flow.

My daughter, Alex, has enrolled in Big State… Read full post »