Archive for June 2010

My senior English teacher in high school once told the class that “if you know all of the rules of grammar, you can can break them at your discretion.” I am not sure exactly what the message was there, other than to encourage us to actually learn them. She would drill us with quizzes to [...]

Longest day

Today marks the first day of summer, although the weather we have been having for the last month would beg to differ. If the official start of seasons were determined by average temperatures rather than dates on a calendar, we have been in “summer” for quite some time. Sunday we were out in the heat [...]

This morning I was quoted/pictured in The Tennessean: [...] Stephen Yeargin of Nashville has experienced that dichotomy firsthand. His 419 Facebook friends have taught him that “just because you know a lot of information about a person, doesn’t mean you know them.” From time to time, while talking with new acquaintances, Yeargin, 26, will realize [...]

So I have now logged five races in six months, this time at the Music Fest Road Race. I am still hunting for my first sub-40-minute finish in 5Ks this year, but I will take a 40:58 as hot as it was on the course today. As Samantha is quick to remind me, I have [...]

For the first time in more than a year, I spent the weekend knee-deep in web development. The project is a site for an alumni organization for which Samantha serves as a board member. It is somewhat therapeutic to tackle the entire project, from creating PSD mock-ups, breaking it down into HTML/CSS and incorporating it [...]