Category Archives: Life

Living a balanced life means that every aspect of my daily living contributes to who I am. What does today offer?

Fred, Ed, and Earl: The Cancer Trio

Fred, Ed, and Earl: The Cancer Trio Originally uploaded by jawboneradio College friend Len Peralta has a wonderful service called MonsterByMail. You give him the name of a monster, and he’ll create a 4×6 original piece of art for you. This summer’s theme is Super Villains. Our friend Laura is battling cancer and named her

Memorial Day Work Results

Here are the before and after pics of our yard beds. Mucho Mucho Thanks to Mom and Dad for the amazing amount of work they contributed to the project. There will probably be a set of AFTER AFTER pics once the transplanted bulbs grow and the sunflowers we planted blossom.

Thoreau on Communication

Thanks to Sara Zarr for bringing an apt Thoreau comment to bear on our modern “communication” innovations. The Stories of a Girl » the search for a rich inner life continues….

Seven Must-Listen This American Life Episodes :: List of the Day :: Paste

Seven Must-Listen This American Life Episodes :: List of the Day :: Paste. I’ve heard TAL stories off and on since their inception, and I’ve always been intrigued with the radio feature story format. No one does it better than Ira & company, and Maddux’s top seven are certainly gems. I started trying to make

When Facebook Apps Go Bad

Was quite disconcerted to see this “enticement” this morning. You’d think that since FB knows we’re married (after all I did receive an announcement from FB that I was, in fact, married to Sherry, and if FB says it’s so, it must be so!) they’d possibly avoid pairing us up in such ads. Unless, of

Birthday Lasagna!

Birthday Lasagna! Originally uploaded by TCTruffin For her birthday supper, the Teenager asked Sherry to make her vegan lasagna. I got the bright idea to put candles on it since we’d forgotten the candles on the cake earlier in the day. Quick note, candles can melt from the bottom as well as the top. There’s

80′s Night at TU

Jaime in Red Originally uploaded by TCTruffin One thing you can do when you want to feel old is find a group of college students who think that your high school era is a cool, retro time-period and then create an event where everyone celebrates said era. Because Sherry and I like feeling old, 80′s

Dumb Sports Comments

Sherry and I love poking fun at sports commentators who say silly things. Granted, we ourselves would probably say some dumb things if we were miked for three hours and sitting at a sporting event. However, sometimes folks say things that really are just plain, well, wrong. At the end of today’s Maryland/California NCAA basketball

2009 Monty Python Party

Last night we held the 6th (or 5th) Irregular Annual Monty Python party. The first party was held in 1995 at the Fry house. Since then we have had parties at the Toccoa house, the Chicago apartment, and the Tiffin house. All parties include coconuts, House Rules, costumes, and assorted hilarities. This year marked our

Two Dummies Brave the Ice

Ted on the Ash Cave Path, originally uploaded by TCTruffin. On Friday, Ted and I thought it would be nice to return to Hocking Hills State Park and see the ice formations at Old Man’s Cave and Ash Cave. Todd thought, “What with the recent fluctuations in temperature–the warm days followed by the bone-chilling cold–there