A piano lesson from the one and only Peter Nevland

Don’t distract me, Mom. Can’t you see I’m busy?

The parking lot was absolutely full behind the Allen Building this evening. That’s where I always park when I go to class, and tonight I could not find a space. But I was early, so I circled around, and I circled around, and I circled around. It’s not as simple as it sounds, because this […]

I am not cool. Sorry to disappoint you, but I’m not. And I never have been. If you’ve been thinking that by hanging out with me, or being my friend, or reading my blog, you are identifying with some kind of “coolness,” then you are wrong. Dead wrong. So sorry. Proof? I love prepositional phrases. […]

Everett is wanting to recreate the My Otter’s Map. Surely, if you’ve read the third Harry Potter book, you remember the My Otter’s Map. It’s really cool. It’s a magic map of Hogwarts that shows, with footprints, where everyone in the school is at the moment one is looking at the map. Very cool. Spectacularly […]

Emma Grace was four yesterday. Hard to believe. It feels like she’s still so new, like I’m still getting to know her. What a delight she is. We had a full day of celebration, beginning with a gift wrapped and waiting on her bed (her own umbrella) and pink balloons marking her way from her […]