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Rhubarb Report 081

Category: Blog/Rhubarb Diaries

There is nothing more amusing than a cold front barreling into Austin in December. It can certainly be an ominous proposition as freezing rain can shut the city down in the blink of an eye. Although I ...
Sunday, 08 December 2013
Rhubarb Report 080

Category: Blog/Rhubarb Diaries

I can say that the year 2013 has set a new standard. As hard as it is for me to believe, I actually heard Christmas music while grocery shopping early this month. Yes, I am serious. There is nothing like ...
Sunday, 24 November 2013
Rhubarb Report 079

Category: Blog/Rhubarb Diaries

Speechless. Yes, that would have been me this week. It wasn't for lack of verbal capacity. I was speechless because I found myself without a voice this week. In reality, I still had a voice, but it was ...
Sunday, 10 November 2013
Rhubarb Report 078

Category: Blog/Rhubarb Diaries

Breaking news: the US government is back in operation. I have trouble at times deciding if that is a good thing or a bad thing these days. But suffice it to say that we are back to "business as usual" ...
Sunday, 27 October 2013
Rhubarb Report 077

Category: Blog/Rhubarb Diaries

We are now 13 days into a government shutdown in the United States. It is hard to imagine that any group has the power to simply "shut down" governmental operations. Worse yet, it is even harder to imagine ...
Sunday, 13 October 2013
Rhubarb Report 076

Category: Blog/Rhubarb Diaries

The last few weeks have been busy weeks, indeed. I've not been writing as much or as frequently. Oh, the ebb and flow of time while teaching a class in the fall semester and attempting to put some focus ...
Sunday, 29 September 2013
Rhubarb Report 075

Category: Blog/Rhubarb Diaries

The flurry of activity that is traditionally the first two weeks of a new semester of teaching are now over. For some reason, even after teaching the same class (Functional Anatomy) for 10 years - 8 with ...
Sunday, 15 September 2013
Rhubarb Report 074

Category: Blog/Rhubarb Diaries

There is always a certain degree of excitement at this time of year. It's the start of a new semester of teaching, which is always an adventure regardless of how many years you have taught the course. ...
Saturday, 31 August 2013
Rhubarb Report 073

Category: Blog/Rhubarb Diaries

August is always a month of anniversaries and times of reflection. I am not quite sure why, but August seems to have accumulated a lot of life events, seemingly more so than any other month. This year ...
Friday, 16 August 2013
Rhubarb Report 072

Category: Blog/Rhubarb Diaries

It's amazing how connected we are these days. We update our friends online. We share our photos and videos online. We get our news online. So imagine my disconnectedness after being in Denver for five ...
Thursday, 01 August 2013
Rhubarb Report 071

Category: Blog/Rhubarb Diaries

It was another example of truth being stranger than fiction: rain, in Austin, in July. As I looked out the window, I had a double-take. I had to pause to realize that no, Chicken Little, the sky was not ...
Thursday, 18 July 2013
Rhubarb Report 070

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Today is Independence Day in the United States. For the first time since I moved to Austin, I went to Auditorium Shores this evening to watch the fireworks and listen to the symphony. It's not that I haven't ...
Thursday, 04 July 2013
Rhubarb Report 069

Category: Blog/Rhubarb Diaries

Let's get this out of the way right now. I will begrudgingly congratulate the Miami Heat for winning game 7 and becoming NBA champions. As a resident of central Texas, it should be no surprise that I was ...
Thursday, 20 June 2013
Rhubarb Report 068

Category: Blog/Rhubarb Diaries

Here I was thinking that Section 215 was in the Alamodome or some other large Texas football stadium. Boy, was I wrong. Little did I know that it's the section of the US Patriot Act that seems to be getting ...
Thursday, 06 June 2013
Rhubarb Report 067

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They took me to the brink again. And once again, they left Leaf Nation hanging, uttering the phrase "maybe next season" one more time. "They" would be the Toronto Maple Leafs, of course, who were officially ...
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Rhubarb Report 066

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This year is the first time since 2004 that the Toronto Maple Leafs have been a part of the NHL playoffs. They were, until last week, the owners of the league's longest post-season drought. You would also ...
Thursday, 09 May 2013
Rhubarb Report 065

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The last few days have had me in a reflective mindset. I think it relates to spending more time out walking and hiking at a local park. It is a time to breath, to get away from the demands of the world ...
Thursday, 25 April 2013
Rhubarb Report 064

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The Madness is over. No more basketball marathons. Louisville cut down the nets in a epic final against Michigan - well, an epic 30 minutes at least. So now it's time to get back to reality. Or go into ...
Thursday, 11 April 2013
Rhubarb Report 063

Category: Blog/Rhubarb Diaries

It is now time to take a deep breath. Whew. Week one of the NCAA men's basketball tournament is officially over. If 2 nights and 4 full days of basketball isn't exhausting, I am not sure just what is. ...
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Rhubarb Report 062

Category: Blog/Rhubarb Diaries

Spring break. In Canada, it was better known as "Reading Week" and it wasn't in March - it was in February. I don't remember there being a mad rush to Florida or South Padre Island. You were probably spending ...
Thursday, 14 March 2013