No More Land Line!

After today, our old number will be gone (872-2437)

please use my cell phone number



thanks!

King New Year 2010

Happy New Year!!

A vocationally oriented year. Trista’s in Feb. and me in August, capping a semester of student teaching, about two years of classes and bookstore, a nearly endless summer, and graduation. We consider ourselves very fortunate. There was so much more that happened in 2009, but I mention the vocational stuff because hopefully, we can move on from what was such a stressful focus. Employment is never guaranteed, but we’ll take it when we can. “Focus” was really the wrong word to use, but it worked so well – “job-getting” was really more of a context in which we LIVED last year and that is perhaps my proudest achievement- that within that “context,” we (as a family) still very much LIVED.

King New Year wishes you well in 2010!

Some Movies

that I have watched or will be watched very soon

Star Trek '09
Jaws
Night at the Museum Part 2
Land of the Lost '09
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
District 9
Holes
Harry Potter and Half-Blood Prince
Angels and Demons


Movies that I want to see . . .

Inglourious Basterds
9
The Hangover
New Moon
Avatar

You Didn't Know - that he worked on the weekends -AS LOVERBOY!!

This picture and the previous "Orange Glow" picture were captured on what is now my last visit to the ole ranch this last summer. This image of "Loverboy" was snapped during the construction of a "Patio Recreation Unit."

Today is Veteran's Day. I am drinking coffee, listening to a cranked up "Morrison Hotel"-

A deer passed onto the hill to the west and is looking my way. Soon I will venture outside to find and hug my own peace frog. The deer moved on, out of sight. And so are The Doors. Land Ho!!

Look, he glows, like citric happiness

Foot and Hand Fevers

An affliction shared by few and understood by less.
The heating up and slight swelling and unbearable itching.
It can drive an insane man mad.
Many a night I have scratched nearly to the bone; leaving me to deal with the resultant scabs for weeks.
A terrible waste of time; oh the accomplishments never accomplished!
Once, in an effort to gain access between my little and fourth toe, I pulled too greatly at my littlest toe.
I strained too mightily. I felt the tearing of tendons and muscle as I achieved the balance of a lunatic.
The itch was appeased, but the injury left me with an embarrassing sentence.
Seven days I lurked awkwardly and unsteadily with a slight limp.
No freezing chemical spray; no caring ointment or balm.
No hope for understanding; no chance for honest sympathy.
The struggle to survive in the hell of my own hands and feet continues.

Molly Murakami: for everyone and especially Mr. Cummings

First, Molly's test came back and all is well. Thank you all for the positivity. Thank you.

My blogging has become a bit backed up and I hope to loosen the bowels a little real soon.

But first, I know, Stephen, that you have a Murakami ticker on your site and that you are a big fan. It is certainly an author that I have been interested in reading but have not, until last night. In the next week or two I hope to teach "The Seventh Man" to my tenth grade class as part of a short story unit. Since I am newly exposed to Haruki, I thought I would ask for any insights that you might care to share regarding the author and or the story. Anybody else is welcome to chime in as well, of course.

Thanks!