Last night we decided we weren’t going to attend the Big Spring Jam this year. It was a tough call. The Big Spring Jam is a sentimental event for us. Lea and I started becoming a couple at the Jam in 1994. I had met her two months earlier at my girlfriend-at-the-time Jennifer’s birthday party, … Read more
Last night our across-the-street neighbors hosted a large party for their 14-year-old. She is a sweet, responsible girl who looks adults in the eye and speaks in complete sentences. They’re good folks. At the party’s height, there were a couple of dozen vehicles present, none of which were parked inappropriately. There was a baseline din, … Read more
I’m Generation X. If you were born between 1964 and 1979 (inclusive), you are too, though from 1975 on you can instead claim “MTV Generation,” if you like that better. I heard a lot in the media about how little direction I had, right around the time I was graduating from high school. That fit … Read more