OnMyMind

Driving home last night, I took a different route than usual. I was checking out a back road route, as I am thinking of trying to commute to work by bicycle, and the main route has some really steep hills. My thinking was that the back roads would have a smoother grade, and […]

We had our first typhoon of the season last night. It came through during the night as we slept, but I woke a few times to the rain drumming on the lid of the box out back. When I got up this morning, around 7, it was still raining fairly hard. I […]

I read an article in the ELT Newsletter this morning about Fatherhood in Japan. Mark McBennett, Editor of the ELT News, wrote the article and it reminded me quite a lot of my own experiences. Mark wrote:
“I also do my share of changing her diapers, feeding her, bathing her, putting her to […]

As I walk out of my last class of the day, my wife and kids are waiting for me up in front of my office. They had to come into town for shopping, so we decided to have dinner together. Crossing the campus to my office I noticed the sun setting over […]

Apparently, there was a rather large earthquake last night in Japan. They say it was a 7 on the Japanese scale (which I believe is loosely based on how many monsters it feels like are attacking Tokyo at the time: 2 Mothras, 2 Gamaras, and 3 Godzillas???). I am not sure what that […]

I woke up on Sunday at around 6. I didn’t really want to, but sleeping just didn’t seem like an option anymore. I was sleeping on a sand covered futon and my son seemed to be having a dream about soccer, and he seemed to be mistaking my groin for a soccer ball. I had […]

One of my new jobs around the house, has become chasing snakes. Just now, as I sat comfortably at my computer, I heard a telltale “plop”. It was the sound of a frog jumping to the water for safety. I have a small pond that I originally built out my back door for some goldfishy […]