Marcel Proust Quote:“Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.” Confessions Question:Your favorite qualities in a man. Confidences Question:The quality that I desire in a man. Proust’s Answer:Feminine charms. Proust and I diverge quite a bit on this answer. (Did I mention that… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Five
Marcel Proust Quote: “A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.” Confessions Question: Your favorite motto. Confidences Question: My motto. Proust’s Answer: I should be too afraid that it bring me misfortune. The truth is that while I learned many a thing this year, I… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Four
Today is Carrie’s birthday. Happy Birthday Carrie! Carrie got to spend a good portion of her birthday with her family and with me in Ledges. I will post some of those pictures in January. It will include a picture of the aftermath of my falling through some thin ice past… Read More »Happy Birthday and a Farewell
Today is the birthday of my nephew and the eldest son of my eldest sister. So Happy Birthday Brandon! For more quality images of Brandon, you can visit the Family Album in the Snapshots Gallery. Or you can click on the link below: Brandon Brandon has his own car… Read More »Happy Birthday Brandon!
Marcel Proust Quote: “We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.” Confessions Question: Your favorite colour and flower. Confidences Question: My favorite colour. There… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Three
Marcel Proust Quote: “We become moral when we are unhappy.” Confessions Question: What you appreciate the most in your friends. Confidences Question: What I appreciate most about my friends. Proust’s Answer: To have tenderness for me, if their personage is exquisite enough to render quite high the price of their… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Two
Marcel Proust filled out the questionnaire twice. The first time was in either 1885 or 1886 in an English confessions album. The second time was in either 1891 or 1892 in the French album Les confidences de salon. There are some questions unique to both questionnaires and the wording is… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number One
As the year is winding down and I am trying to set aside more time for photo projects I have decided to do something a little bit different with this Journal in the month of December. I’ve decided to reflect on the accomplishments and failures of this past year. The… Read More »Formulaic Catechism
This day is often referred to as Turkey Day in the slacker way that some people use to be overly casual about certain events in a weak attempt to display aloofness in the vain hope that they will be perceived as cool. I am not one of those people. I… Read More »Happy Turkey Day!
This a journal entry that is bound to be of very little interest to most, but a little general housekeeping must be done. The website has been hit by small amounts of Spam lately. I have had to make a couple of small and not that regrettable changes to prevent… Read More »Meat in a Can
On Sunday I descended into the depths of Missouri and Kansas on Sunday to watch Alexis compete in competitive cheerleading. I had spoken with our Associate Pastor Andrea about good barbecue joints in Kansas City and she recommended Jack Stack for ribs and Oklahoma Joe’s for sandwiches. I looked into… Read More »Be Aggressive!
Kelly’s salon recently had their Grand Re-opening after all of their remodeling. I hadn’t put a picture up in Salon 908 since the remodeling, so I decided to do a window project for the salon. For a closer look at Window Project #2, you will need to go to Salon… Read More »Window Project #2
I’ve posted a few pictures from the Iowa State’s last two home games in the Snapshots Gallery. A few of my favorites from the Oklahoma State game… Warming Up James Smith and Banks This picture might be a statement on the one sided nature of this game, but while watching… Read More »Last 2 Home Games
I usually spend Wednesday nights at open gym honing my basketball craft to a fine art. I had plans of continuing this honing on this Wednesday night, but it wasn’t to be. As I was working away at the Computer Mine, my phone rang. The smiling face (not really smiling)… Read More »Wednesday Surprise
Mark’s monthly newsletter from Taiwan. The Taiwan Times By Mark Wolfram Reporting on God’s Mission in Taiwan October 2009 “Rags! Rags! Rags for sale! Give me your old ones, I will give you new ones.” Have you ever felt like you had struggles, difficulties, or shortcomings that you continually deal… Read More »The Taiwan Times – October 2009
This is journal entry number 700. I started this online journal on August 9, 2006. These were the first words that I typed out: So here is the first journal entry. I felt like having as pretentious sounding name as possible for my journal. I have a few goals about… Read More »An Old Newspaper
The day before Halloween was a very special Friday Night Supper Club. It was special because I hosted it, The guest list was expanded, we had Casey’s taco pizza and Jay made the dessert. Why these special things occurred can be traced back to one thing. At that FNSC I… Read More »The Jupiter Chronicles
This concludes the Johnathan series. Hopefully we will get some indoor photos taken in the near future.
The best part of these pictures is that around the time we started on this set of pictures, Johnathan said, “Hey mom, you are standing on a snake.” Carla looked down. She was indeed standing a living, breathing snake. She slightly overreacted. Poor thing. At least it wasn’t hurt. >… Read More »Johnathan – Day 1 Part D
