This is me:   This *should* be me: Ever have one of those days?  Fink, hittin’ the ground runnin’…

It’s going to be one of those weeks. I can just smell it. Woke up this morning with a terrible cold. I felt it coming on all day yesterday, but tried to ignore it. It will not be ignored. In anticipation of feeling like garbage this morning, I took *one* NyQuil pill (half the regular [...]

Did I thank you all for your kind comments yesterday? Well I am now. Good conversations at school led to some hugs and healing. All is well. I am running late. Nothing new under the sun. Happy Finkday. Bring on the grandsons, the sunny weather (and almost 50 degrees!), choreography, score cuts, calling guitar players [...]

My new year’s resolution to try to care a bit less about what people think is being mightily tested. Here is what I observe (in lieu of sleep) this morning: I am being refined by fire. It’s good for me. By “refined by fire,” I mean watching my character (and that of a colleague) be [...]

Sure looks like it. And about time, too. Rousseau, at his relaxed happiest at 6:30 this morning… Snowbathing I made him come in before I had a bigger mess to clean up You know, as much as I complain about the weather (and lack of weather on school days when I’d rather stay home in [...]