Happy Spring!

Happy springtime to all you players out there. The weather’s warming up here in Texas. We’re coming out of winter. I think we’re through the worst of it. Are you looking for signs of new growth? Look to the trees! They’re always the first to show.

Some techno-gibberish: forestry.io offers a free CMS service that integrates with Hugo, the tool I use to generate the site. What that means is that I can now update the site from my iPhone 📱!

Hopefully that’ll allow me to do something from time to time that I’ve never done here before — real-time site updates. Capture some things in the moment before they’re lost to time and fleeting attention.

Celebrate with me by dancing to this song.

Ash Wednesday, Great Lent

Today is Ash Wednesday, the Catholic holy day that begins the penitential season of Lent. This year I will not be celebrating as a Catholic.

Last year on September 1st Kassi and I, after a long season of spiritual apathy and suffering, took our first steps into the Russian Orthodox Church. There were private reasons, of course. Personal reasons that are always at the core of any conversion; but also open reasons. We did not take the step lightly.

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Tonight You Belong To Me

I’ve had this song stuck in my head for a couple of days, and maybe if I post it I can get rid of it. It’s from The Jerk, and features Bernadette Peters, my first screen crush when I was just a little kid. That bit at the end where she pulls out the coronet still cracks me up. Still, it’s a touching scene, don’t you think? A little reminder that life can be sweet sometimes.