Recently, I had the occasion to hop a plane to destinations far away. And I couldn’t help but notice how much the world has changed in the last twenty years. Why twenty years? Because at the tender age of 19, I hopped my first jet. And I couldn’t help but notice the differences that there [...]
Sometime near the beginning of the fall in 2010, my wife pointed out an email she had received, in which a local homeschooling group was putting together a “Snow Fun” group at our local ski resort, Alpine Valley. I thought maybe she had finally gone off the cliff. “You… want me to… ski?” I had [...]
I woke up this morning with a rather odd feeling that something was different. I couldn’t have told you then nor can I tell you now exactly what it was that wended its way through my heart and mind. Was it simply that I didn’t get much sleep, due to a slamming night of games [...]
It’s dark outside, which in Ohio at this time of year means that we’ve passed the three o’clock hour somewhere. And that’s when I realize that I’m about to let another day draw to an end without the daily blog post. Ach! Time to pull out the ‘puter and bang on it for a few [...]
I think the hardest part about making blog posts is just figuring out what I want my blog to be. Do I want it to be a journal, where I record happenings of my life? Or do I want it to be a collation of reviews, sharing what I like/dislike about games, books, movies and [...]
November has arrived! What does this mean for the Goose and the Gaggle? Quite a bit, actually. 1. National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). It’s the month when folks get together, both virtually and physically, to slam out 50,000 words in 30 days. It’s been done before, though not by me. I’ve attempted it before, both [...]
For Valentine’s Day this year, I surprised my wife1 with a date to the The Loretta Paganini School of Cooking Valentine’s Dinner for Two.2 Sabra and I had always been very curious about the classes and events offered by the school, a local Chesterland establishment, and we both were very much looking forward to the [...]
Our story begins on the morning of Sunday, January 31. As I recall, it was a fairly nice looking day outside, despite the snow covering the grass outside our window. I glanced at the clock and realized that I had better get out of bed and get ready for church or we would be late [...]
A new year has come, and over the last few weeks I’ve been pondering 2009. And I’ve come to one simple conclusion… 2009 was a year of relative stagnation for The Bearded Goose. I feel that I’ve accomplished very little, and I haven’t really progressed or grown over the course of those last twelve months. [...]
Well… we’ve reached, and passed, the halfway mark through this surprisingly warm month of November in the year of 2009. And while much has been accomplished already, very little of it is related to the activities I thought I’d try my hand at. As a reminder, you can always head back to the post I [...]