My weirdest roadtrip playlist, ever

Here's the playlist I threw together for my roadtrip to Charlotte two weekends ago.

I have no idea what I was thinking.

1. "It's Not My Time" by 3 Doors Down

2. "The Middle" by Jimmy Eat World

3. "Always a Friend" by Alejandro Escovedo

4. "Bang My Drum" by Danielia Cotton

5. "Beautiful Day" by U2

6. "Scar That Never Heals" by Jeremy Fisher

7. "Almost Like Love" by Yes

8. "Love Will Find a Way" by Yes

9. "I'm the Man" by Anthrax

10. "Good Times" by INXS & Jimmy Barnes

11. "Heaven is a Place on Earth" by Belinda Carlisle

12. "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" by Pet Shop Boys

Indeed.

Sadie as Spider-Man at last Saturday's Oktoberfest

40

I like "40" by U2, the P-40 aircraft, 40 ounces, the 40 yard line, "40 Days" by Chris Robinson & The New Earth Mud, Isaiah 40, John Berryman's Dream Song 40, Pensees #40 -- and now I see a rainbow.

Funny and scary: The future of ordering pizza

Mid life

Why does it feel like I pressed the pause button when I was 17, and now I want to press "play" again?

I want to contact high school friends again. I want to listen to the music I listened to in high school again.

Maybe it's like the snow globe was shaken with the start of college, and now it's all finally settled again.

Maybe. Fortunately for Kristi, I don't want to get a red sports car, and I don't trust many people other than her.

Coffee for dogs

I was on the back patio this morning, throwing the tennis ball into the yard so Lucy, a four-month-old black lab-great dane mix, could play fetch.

Mosquitoes began to accumulate on my legs, so I placed my cup of Cashua Coffee's Mocha Java on the bricks encircling a tree.

Lucy sniffed the cup, and then started lapping.

She even came back to it, and lapped it until the cup tipped over.

Oddly enough, she is still, at the present moment, taking her normal mid-morning nap.

Must not have made it strong enough.

'A Wrinkle in Time'

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle


My rating: 4 of 5 stars
An imaginative, complex book that never gets too complicated for its young audiences to follow. My 9-year-old and 7-year-old enjoyed it.

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What makes a friendship? How Shestov and Husserl became buds

Edmund Husserl once said of his fellow philosopher Lev Shestov, “No one has ever attacked me so sharply as he. That’s why we are such close friends.”

From this article in The Jewish Week.