Blogging from the beach is hard and not that much exciting has happened. The kids are exhausted and it’s starting to show. The extreme weather broke today so it’s not ungodly hot. We’ll make one more trip over to the beach, surf a few wave, collect a few shells. Then we’re going out for seafood.…

My kids were basically in some body of water all day. Geeky boy, especially, loves the ocean. I’m amazed at how much I worry about him while trying not to look like I’m worried. It is amazingly hot but generally there’s a nice breeze. Today we’re planning a major sandcastle and lots of body surfing.…

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Nearly halfway to the beach. Some observations. traffic sucksmen in tank tops creep me outi’ve seen more accidents in the last month than in my whole lifehotel coffee sucks Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure

Some conversations I have with my extended family contain an element of racism. My inlaws, too, often make racist comments. I don’t think they always mean them in a racist way. They just say things without thinking. These comments are not the blatant racist comments one thinks of from around the time of the civil…

Tomorrow I leave for vacation. We’re going to the same beach I went to my whole life. We haven’t been in 15 years. Man, I feel old. We’re meeting my father and stepmother there. When I was growing up, vacation was the one time I got to bond with my father. Especially when I was…

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This is what I get to do at work. What a great job I have! Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure

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I don’t know why, but I’m thinking about the Pink Floyd song when I think about the way social software–especially blogging–threatens education as we know it. Things move so slowly in higher ed that I don’t think anything radical is going to happen in the next 5 years or even 10 years, but it might.…