Tuesday

Autobiographical Corner

Welcome to May. The Scheske Family's Hell Month. Every May is a whirlwind that makes every activity except the most fleeting impossible. Serious reading, writing, and prayer? Phsaw. It doesn't happen during May. We have baseball and soccer and sacraments and end-of-school-year activities.

I'll make the same plea I make to every adult with no children in the school system: DO NOT SCHEDULE ANYTHING IN MAY, IF YOU WANT PEOPLE WITH SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN TO ATTEND. May is brutal with activity, and people like me respond by slashing every non-essential activity on the plate.

This May, however, might be a little bit different. A few things: (1) I have decided to unleash a lot of excerpts from my journals and half-written books onto TDE. This blog will benefit greatly, for readers who enjoy weightier posts. This will free up time from blogging, while providing TDE readers with (I hope) high-quality fare. I anticipate no fewer than a dozen pre-written posts. (2) Alex is back from college, and he has no student functions for us to attend . . . and he is a licensed and capable driver. This might be absolutely huge. "Alex, please take your sister to soccer practice. Alex, please drive your brother to his basketball tournament in Kalamazoo. Alex, you need to take Max to baseball and tell the other coaches your Dad has been delayed at work." And of course: "Alex, don't forget that we're paying your tuition for at least one more semester." Poor Alex, but excited me. (3) Very little baseball. Baseball might be the biggest time hog of them all, but I have only one boy (Max) playing this year (last year, I had three boys in three different leagues), and I'm only an assistant coach. That alone might make this May the most pleasant in over ten years, even though Max has baseball practices eight out of the next twelve nights. We'll see.

Watch this space for some pretty good stuff (relatively-speaking, of course).