I exited the office early today and took in a couple of hours of sun and baseball with the Red Sox and Nationals. The Red Sox won, not that it matters in a Spring Training game. I left in the bottom of the 7th when both teams on the field were mostly …
I had some time to kill in Richmond today, so I took a walk with my camera down Monument Avenue in Richmond VA. Monument Ave is generally considered one of the best streets in any city, due primarily to the 6 large monuments to Southern heroes that do…
Fredericksburg Christian Lower (Elementary) caters in fast food every single day.
Monday – Pizza of undetermined origin.
Tues – KFC
Wed – Subway
Thur – Salsarita’s
Fri – Dairy Queen
Really? This is what they are teaching kids about healthy eating…
This is a great blog post from Laura Grace Weldon (author of Free Range Learning) about her efforts to get the school system to work with her son, whose learning style was more than one standard deviation from the mean. The school, of course, just want…
So this is how a blog dies; not with thunderous applause, but with a whimper. (Apologies to Natalie Portman…)
This is a graph of O’DonnellWeb traffic, going back to 2005 when I first started using Google Analytics.. The high water mark was March 20…
One of the things that I have noticed on my daily commute is how disconnected we are from our environment. When I get in line to catch a ride some people will already have headphones on. So they are there physically, but you can’t really interact with …
The kids and myself headed to the mountains this AM for a 8 mile circuit hike of Old Rag. I’m not going to lie to you Marge, it wasn’t the easiest hike we’ve done. Steeply up for the first 3 miles, with lots of rock hopping, actual hand over hand rock …
When you can fit 20,000 songs on a thumb drive, and 1000 books on a Kindle, the concept of a “collection” becomes sort of meaningless. I was thinking about this recently as I scrolled through my MP3 collection, wondering where the heck some of the stuf…
Regular readers know that I am a big Butch Walker fan. So it did not take me long to ante up for his first book, Drinking With Strangers. It’s insightful, occasionally touching, but mostly it’s just damn funny. We learn how a hair metal band can sign a…
60 days of having less Google in my life, and somehow, my life doesn’t feel empty of less fulfilling at all. Huh.
I’m a raving fan of Duck Duck Go. I strongly encourage both my readers to give it a try. I don’t miss Google search at all.
As mentioned i…
