So, Monday is our 13th wedding anniversary, and we had planned on celebrating by going to an Indians game Friday night, attending the Cleveland Irish Festival Saturday, and maybe going out to a nice dinner on Monday. The week leading up to the weekend couldn’t have been less inspiring. We returned from Chicago with Todd …
Category Archives: in a small town
Excepting Alice
About halfway through the show Friday night, Sherry leaned over and asked me why Arlo Guthrie kept interrupting his great stories with all these songs. Her question was a testament to the quality of Guthrie’s storytelling more than a comment on the music, which was rich, varied, and engaging. Witnessing Guthrie weave old and new …
Noises, Noises, Oh the Beautiful Noises!
I had forgotten just how loud teenage girls can be. I mean, like, wow. Loud. Last night we went to the Ritz Theater in Tiffin for the last night of the Ohio Jazz Summit. On this night, the featured artists were all vocal bands, largely acapella. The audience, though it did contain a sprinkling of …
Happy Birthday, Sherry!
Yesterday (March 5) was Sherry’s birthday. Yey! We celebrated Saturday night by having our 4th (or 5th) Monty Python Party. There was cheese, laughing, carving of pressed meat, and much rejoicing. Check out the full (image laden) report for all the juicy details.
The Snow Thrower Fairy
So, last night wasn’t first snow fall we’ve had this year, but it’s likely to the first one that lasts more than a day or two. Yesterday the ground and roads were bare (except for the leaves I never raked). After dark, the flurries started, and this morning there was 3-4 inches of the lovely …
Fall has, er, sprung
After a warm October and some absolutely miserable days of dreary clouds and rain, the trees finally decided it was time to pack in the canopies, show their true colors, and shed. For a few days, the view outside our upstairs windows was wild with red and orange and even some stubborn green. A couple …
What’s in a name?
Tiffin Function: noun Etymology: probably alteration of tiffing, gerund of obsolete English tiff to eat between meals chiefly British : a light midday meal : LUNCHEON from Merriam-Webster Online
Its not a miracle; it’s American seamanship!
Tonight was the kick-off event to this year’s Arts & Angles series at Tiffin University. Arts & Angles runs throughout the school year and features various faculty members of the school of Arts and Sciences giving talks each month. This year, the dean of A&S—Janet Hanna—decided to give the talks a theme—World War II—in celebration …
Chicago Tribune: “Wal-Mart PR Exec in Ad Flap Resigns”
Chicago Tribune news : Business: What’s scarier: that Wal-Mart ran an ad featuring “a picture that showed Nazi supporters throwing books onto a fire. The text under the photo read: “Should we let government tell us what we can read? Of course not.” The ad continued, “So why should we allow local government to limit …
Spamalot: The Non-Musical variety
The castle of spam made an appearance at our Monty Python party on March 5. Jack Bates was the general contractor on the project. Images of the spam castle lost in conversion from Blogger. They will be restored when practicable.
