Category: Lessons
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See the full gallery on Posterous Pete graduated high school today, and he did it like he does so much,with an assuredness and good nature that are a pleasure to be around. Both grandmas and Kevin’s sister Sue were there as well. As has been our luck all week, the weather held, and everything went…
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See the full gallery on Posterous The weather held, lots of people (Brad Elrod, the Kirks, Carol Dole, Laurie Barlow, Maureen Kahn, my mom, my sister Sue, and especially Pete) pitched in, and we had a really fun celebration of Pete’s graduation.
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See the full gallery on Posterous Pete was invited to attend the annual awards night at Methacton High School. If you know Pete, you know that his academics have not been especially stellar over the years, so we were all curious what award he was up for. Physical education? A school spirit or “good citizen” award…
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See the full gallery on Posterous Virginia, Kelly and I made a trip to Fort Deposit, Md., where we met with Virginia’s mom Rosalie for a late lunch to celebrate Mother’s Day. We met at an interestting restaurant, The Union Hotel, whihc was oone part colonial-themed restaurant and one-part biker bar. After eating, we drove…
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Our nephew Nick celebrated his 11th birthday at his grandma Kim’s house. He received a bunch of books (OK, 2) on Napoleon, his current hero. You can watch him hamming it up while we sing Happy Birthday to him.
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See the full gallery on Posterous At Methacton, there’s a student lock-in after the dance called Post-Prom, that is outrageously over-the-top. Here are some photos from teh walk-through we took before teh Big Night. Virginia and I helped clean up the next morning.
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See the full gallery on Posterous See the full gallery on Posterous He and his date looked great. They had fun. And we took photos at an impressively huge home. Pete was home by around 2 am, as he had to work the next morning at 10.
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See the full gallery on Posterous We didn’t think the Methacton tennis team would be particularly good this year—they lost a lot of talented seniors after last year, and Pete’s the only senior with appreciable varsity experience returning from last year. But things have gone OK, and the Warriors are in position to win the Pac-10…
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See the full gallery on Posterous Virginia and Kevin went to our denominational conference the weekend of April 14-15, in Arlington, Va. It was great to see a lot of friends, and Virginia made progress on her two duties—a districtwide nominating committee for board positions and a Pennsylvania state legislative activist network. She is…
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See the full gallery on Posterous Our drive along the battle lines (Confederate first, then past Little Roundtop and the Union position across from Pickett’s Charge) … the boys sharing a laugh in the hotel .. Eisenhower’s place.
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See the full gallery on Posterous We took advantage of the boys’ Spring Break for a family-only getaway, to Gettysburg, where only Virginia had visited previously (though she likes to tell Kevin he’s been there every time we re-visit the subject. The boys were, honestly, not very excited about the trip, but we won them…
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Methacton Hoops Season in Review 2011-12 from Kevin Donahue on Vimeo. The Pac-10 conference champs. We made this for the season-closing team banquet, held today.
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