Category Archives: driving

No Go

The spring after my father died, Mom insisted on selling our two minivans and getting a PT Cruiser to replace them. My parents had ridiculed the PT Cruiser mercilessly when it first came out, but after Mom had a chance to ride in one, she fell in love with them. What was most striking about her insistence that we get this car, though, was that she hadn’t been driving for years, and I’m fairly certain that her driver’s licence had expired years earlier as she…

Read More »

Quick addendum

Twenty minutes into my class tonight, MCCC’s PA system (which sounds about ten times worse than any drive-thru speakers I’ve ever heard) crackled on to say that all classes for the rest of the night were canceled. Not only was I not able to explain my class’ next two assignments to them in depth, but given how bad the roads were at that point, I didn’t even get home much earlier than I do on a normal night. Now I’m forced to consider whether I…

Read More »

Weather redux

I don’t like talking about the same topic twice in a row unless it’s something on the scale of politics, but I can’t help but write about the weather again today. My drive to and from MCCC takes a little over half an hour, and the intersection of US-23 and Ida West Road, where I get off of/onto US-23 up here in Michigan, is almost exactly the halfway point of my drive in terms of time. When I left the house a little over an…

Read More »

The White Stuff

Our first snowfall of the year wasn’t too far off-schedule; we normally get our first accumulation sometime in the last third of November, and this year it came this past Saturday. As is my tradition, I play Björk’s Gling-Gló during the first snowfall, partly because I remember buying it on my winter break that year I went to Antioch from a locally-owned music shop, and partly because those of us who grew up watching A Charlie Brown Christmas will, for better or for worse, always…

Read More »