I AND U

U Lash, frown
I Choke, drown
U Mash, hound
We crumble.

I Fumble
U Grumble
I Stumble
We crash down.

Me: "Who knew?"
"Should be YOU!"
I turn, stew
We mold.

U Withhold
I Lay cold
Pain untold
We're through.

Back in the Saddle

Well, my last post was Feb. of 07. Part of the problem then was the clumsiness of maneuvering using my Safari browser. I'm trying Firefox to see if it changes anything, per Pamalot.

A terse update from the last year and a half. Quit teaching at Behavior Intervention Center a year ago to try college teaching on a part-time level. Loved (in the platonic sense) it, totally. But didn't pay the bills, so starting in a month I'll be teaching high schoolers college classes, and getting paid pretty well for it.



Son Aiden is now 12 and taking piano, tennis, and doing theater camp this summer. He's a good student in Marble Falls, making straight A's on a couple report cards. Caroline is 21 months and a handful, but extremely fun. I do love her inside out and top to bottom. Her smile is a kiss to my heart (aaww). Katie is still flight attending, and still my wife.

In November our little church went under. Quite painful, and quite more devastating than I would have thought. No scandals, not really. Disagreements and subsequent attrition until it could not be sustained any longer. We were a very close, very passionate church -- truly a family -- and it has been hard to pick up pieces and move on. There are contradictory impulses within me: one is to cut all ties and start totally new, the other is to maintain friendships. Obviously the second is the better way, but honestly the first is the stronger. I don't know why. I've personally been wandering this ghostly no-man's land between the two paths for too long now. Honestly my spiritual life is down for the count at the moment - or should I say down for the count at the year.

Um, let's see, what else? I've had a kidney stone. I saw one of the most fun concerts of my life, "Pink Martini". I fell off of a 10 foot ladder with a running chainsaw. Planted a couple new flowerbeds out back. Have played about 400 games of computer Scrabble. Read two very enjoyable books - "The Time It Never Rained" and "The Kite Runner".

Well, that's it in a nutshell. Nutshell. Who stores anything in nutshells? Let's change the saying to "That's it in a country song" or "That's it in a Slim Fast can".

Okay, all the boring stuff is behind me. Starting with the next blog, I'll spew fun deep ruminations all over the screen.