I received some nice news in the mail yesterday, notification that I was named to the Dean's List at Saint Joseph's University for the Spring 2008 term. You get named to the list for being a senior and maintaining at least a 3.50 GPA. Right now in the summer term, I am attending a … Continue reading Making middle-aged academic progress
Happy Thanksgiving to you, happy birthday to me
On this coming Tuesday, I will turn 46 years old. Two days later is Thanksgiving. It is the closest that my birthday ever comes to actually falling on the holiday, which it will never exactly meet. Thanksgiving is celebrated always on the fourth Thursday in November, and if you do the calculating you will see … Continue reading Happy Thanksgiving to you, happy birthday to me
Oh, those Wildwood days!
There is peaceful serenity in the clear blue skies and the fast-rising sun, in the swooping and squawking of the seagulls, in the clatter of bicycle tires along the boardwalk on a typical laid-back summer morning in the Wildwoods. There is excited chaos in the colorful lights of the amusements, in the smells of the … Continue reading Oh, those Wildwood days!
These are a few of my favorite things
Fleetwood Mac at the band's 1998 induction to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame This website. Fantasy baseball. Fleetwood Mac. Pizza. Citizen's Bank Park. The Godfather I & II. Both my Toyota Camry and Avalon. The O'Reilly Factor. "The Sopranos" and other cable TV series from HBO and Showtime. Dinner and a movie … Continue reading These are a few of my favorite things
It was twenty years ago today
The date was August 5th, 1985, “8-5-85” as it would easily be remembered, and would become forever known in team lore. It was a typically warm, sunny summer evening on the softball field at Archbishop Ryan High School in the Northeast section of Philadelphia. On this night, the Brewers softball team was trying to … Continue reading It was twenty years ago today
MATT VEASEY 