I’m so glad that I outgrew trick or treating before the no-fun-niks of my particular subculture deemed Halloween the evil holiday of Satan and all he stands for. Tonight was perhaps the first time in 14 years of marriage that Sherry and I distributed candy for Halloween; there might have been once when we lived …
Monthly Archives: October 2007
sigh
Well, the upside of the Indians’ catastrophic meltdown–if you know a better way to describe blowing a 3-1 lead in the ALCS by a combined score of 30-5 I’d love to hear it–is that I can now get back on a half-way sane sleep schedule, catch up on my reading, finish re-designing www.cynthiamorefield.com, finish my …
Random ALCS Thoughts
Last night Sherry and I took in our 7th Indians game this season. Oh, yeah, and it was Game 3 of the ALCS. Way cool. In between the towel waving and scorekeeping and brat eating and high fiving and chanting and cheering, here are some random thoughts: This year we attended 7 games, including the …
I Knew Her When…
I first met Sara Zarr in the Fiction Workshop at The Glen in 2003. I don’t precisely remember what it was she was workshopping–it might have been a delightfully creepy piece involving a young girl and a stalker–but I do remember thinking, “This woman is a writer.” Over the next few years, I met her …
2007 Cleveland Indians Playoffs
It’s been a tense, fun, enjoyable past few days here at Chez Truffin. Haven’t written because I didn’t think my fingers would work. But with last night’s defeat of the New York Yankees, I think I can relax a bit now, until Friday. Among the stupider decisions by Major League Baseball was the decision to …
MMM mmm gooood
Over at Basic Brewing they had a podcast about “marketing” homebrewed ales to folks who might not necessarily be open to the idea. Turns out I was already planning one of their top ideas. Last Saturday night, we had about 10-12 folks over to the house for a blind tasting of six pale ales. We …
