Archive for October, 2007

Forcing my kids to trick-or-treat

Well the porch light is off. The candy is on piles on the kitchen counter. The kids are all bathed. And now sawing Zzzzs in their beds. And I’m gnawing on pizza rolls and licorice [good dinner, huh?].
Halloween is over. Bummer.
We were able to get all of our pumpkins carved before trick-or-treating. All eight pumpkins. [...]

There are still some good people left in the world

We had our first presentation tonight in my Marketing Research class. I tried to strike a deal with my teammates. I would do just about anything to get out of giving a speech. But I was worried I wasn’t very persuasive with my teammates and would end up stumbling through a few slides in front [...]

I swear I’m not trying to be controversial

I wasn’t going to blog about this because I really don’t want to start a big debate. But it’s really been bothering me. So here it is.
Every day on my way to school I drive by this big sign on the interstate. It says, “God is pro-life. Are you?” This strikes me as a very [...]

Visiting every pumpkin patch in town

Here in The Bean Blog household we are on the countdown to Halloween. I’ve never been a huge fan of Halloween. Don’t get me wrong. As a child I enjoyed trick-or-treating and eating the candy afterwards. But then it became a chore. I feel like I’ve been trick-or-treating every year of my life. By the [...]