Category Archives: CHANGE

2020 in pictures

My annual photo review of the year . . . . Food and kitchen time. Nelson. Garden. Little travel. Hardly any family time. Nine months of no theatre. But plenty of beauty, and of love.

Random musings

I have friends who call this day “Christmas Adam.” Tomorrow is Christmas Eve. My Bible tells me to pray without ceasing. Nelson’s canine version tells him “bark without ceasing,” especially when outdoors with the construction guys at the house to the south. One would think Nelson would tire, but he doesn’t. I was pondering thisContinue reading “Random musings”

Creeping reality

The creeping reality was described this week by a colleague as “a certain joylessness.” I get it. The reality is more apparent that we will be teaching and learning primarily in virtual mode for the rest of this school year. The now reality is that my teaching load is an overload of notable proportions while department-chairingContinue reading “Creeping reality”

Independence Day

As I write on Friday evening, July 3, I can hear the sound of helicopters nearby. Protesters are gathered two blocks away at US 40 and Kingshighway. Me? I’m watching Hamilton and am finding myself deeply moved at the dramatization of the beginnings of this country. Hamilton opens in 1776, after the writing of theContinue reading “Independence Day”

Comedy or tragedy?

The photo (from the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch) looks like part of a marketing campaign for a B-movie comedy. The facial expressions. The sneers. The barefooted-ness. The entitlement. The paranoia. The naked aggression. But it’s not a comedy. These two were serious. And seriously wrong. And the Delmar Divide and the 400 years of our originalContinue reading “Comedy or tragedy?”