This year, I participated in the Belles Lettres competition, representing Becket House in this annual challenge issued by Athanasius House. The competition involved writing a 26-sentence of “a descriptive spoken account of an event or performance as it happens” (in my case, about Thomas Becket). Each sentence had to start with sequential letters of the alphabet, in order, A to Z. It also had to be composed in first person. Several entrants from each house competed, by composing then reciting the paper before the Upper School, guests, and the judges. Read more
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Disaster on I-40
In March of 2009, we were making the journey home from Nashville, but Mother Nature had plans slightly askew from our own plans of sleeping in our warm beds at home that evening. The snow started falling Read more
Houston’s Old Stuff
As we continue to migrate the old site to the new, you can always find my old site here. Check back soon to see the world’s coolest Freshman Blogger……
The migration
It can be, shall we say, rather a pain to migrate content from an old site to a new one. We built the first pages for newsomes.com in Netscape (remember that lil’ billion dollar dot-com that evaporated?) when Houston was born. The we discovered Front Page, the NetObjects, then Sandvox….you get the picture. So rather than import or migrate all the old stuff, we are just going to post some links to the old content, and continue to move our photo libraries over to Google. Enjoy!
Photo from the Mediterranean cruise