Archive for 'Life Is Good' Category

The Glee of a Porpoise Then

By Shane Shennan - Last updated: Saturday, June 20, 2009

I’m rereading The Sword in the Stone, T.H. White’s magical fantasy about the young King Arthur. Here’s a wonderful quotation from Chapter Five. (The Wart is King Arthur’s childhood nickname.)
The Wart did not know what Merlyn was talking about, but he liked him to talk. He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to [...]

Thoughts on Thirty

By Shane Shennan - Last updated: Saturday, June 13, 2009

I don’t feel depressed about turning thirty. I think I dealt with any age-related depression a couple of years ago. Instead, I am excited to turn thirty! That’s because my last decade was amazing. Here is a list of the good stuff that happened to me from the ages 20 to 29:

graduated high [...]

Tradition Returns

By Shane Shennan - Last updated: Sunday, March 22, 2009

Almost two years ago, my youth group took me to Boston Pizza for a surprise 28th birthday party. For some reason, I looked under my chair, and I found this leather-ish tag stamped with the word “Tradition.” I thought it was a nifty find, so I tied the tag onto my backpack.
Last Fall, the youth [...]

LANsagna Party

By Shane Shennan - Last updated: Thursday, March 19, 2009

A funny thing happened on the way to the lasagna.
My sister and I has some friends over for a late dinner last night. While we were waiting for the lasagna to bake, a LAN party broke out!  Long story short, I introduced a gamer friend to another gamer and got the first gamer addicted (hopefully) [...]