The Beckman Blog

Problem:  Kindergarten is a full school day here.  Possible Solution: Preschool (so Jonathan gets used to the idea of going to school). Guess what?  Georgia has a free “Pre-K” program to better prepare 4-year-olds for kindergarten Problem: Pre-K is a mandatory full school day, too.  If parents pick children up early or drop them off […]

Well, there’s only 6 days left until Christmas, so we figured it was high time for us to set up our Christmas tree. Actually, we’ve had the thing in our garage since Thanksgiving, but with all of the end-of-semester stuff going on we simply didn’t have the time or motivation to put it up.

One big disadvantage to being a full-time college student is that several times a year I am forced to go into “blog hibernation” while I hunker down and wrap up outstanding papers and projects before the end of the semester.  As I look over my post history for the past two years, things tend to […]

“Well, the weather outside is frightful…” OK, so actually not. Here in Georgia we are enjoying a beautiful, fall-like, sunny, 63 degree day. I went outside in my short sleeved shirt and didn’t even need a jacket. And today is not an anomaly. According to Weather.com, average highs through the end of December range from […]

This post commemorates two momentous occasions. It’s our 100th post.  Hooray for us! A new page has been added to the blog.  It’s titled, simply, "Today’s Comics," and you can view it by clicking on the tab at the top of this or any other page on our website. The purpose of the page is […]

The Robinson College of Business is located at the intersection of Broad and Marietta streets in Atlanta. At that same intersection, directly across the street, is Barbara M. Asher Square and the MARTA Five Points station, a major public transportation hub and the place where I used* to catch the express bus home at the […]

In anticipation of the public release of WordPress 2.3 (the engine that drives this website) this coming Monday, I thought I’d freshen up the look of the place a bit.  The old MistyLook 1.01 theme was beginning to get a little shopworn, and I didn’t like a lot of the changes that were introduced in […]

…your glasses fog up when you step out of your car. Seriously.

We are just about settled in, though we have yet to go through our "miscellaneous" boxes and decorations. Our new home has a few quirks we are dealing with (like some mismatched paint patches from the last tenant and some overzealous vines that are trying to take over our backyard forest), but it really is […]