Category Archive: Friday Questions
Some Questions Prior to Watching Fireworks
I suppose that this might be while watching fireworks as right now Sarah Palin is on television going on and on about resigning or saving Alaska, or really just Obama being a bad guy and how we need to support the troops. Honestly, I have no idea what she is talking about. But, there she is, talking on July 3rd.
1. My good friend Pat Peckham is off to Montana for a few weeks. I am inspired by both Montana and vacation. What was the longest true vacation you have taken? Let us not count that time you could not get …
Tony Burton made me write these questions
1. The King of Pop and Farrah Fawcett passed away. Do the passing of folks like these, for lack of a better word — celebrities, affect you? Sadden you? In 2009 are there anymore heroes anymore? Or do we as a culture destroy this with some predatory need?
2. The heat was simply impressive, and the fact that it did not break into a massive storm boggled my mind. How did the heat affect you? As we look to the future, what societal changes can we make to ensure that these extremes in …
Cheryl Started This
Clearly our Managing Editor Cheryl Mathis was inspired this week, and had three posts of high-level awesomeness. So, in honor of her themes, I put these humble questions before you.
1. Do you volunteer? Why or why not? Is there something you would like to work on that we simply do not have locally? For example, I would like to meet and help work on dark fiber utilization, but, no one knows what I am talking about, so I might just simply be delusional.
2. Have you been in your neighborhood long? Do you consider yourself part of your neighborhood? Who is …
Questions That Have Very Little Significance
1. The other day, a 22-year-old girl asked me if I thought she should get married. She and her boyfriend have been talking about it, and she is having that hormonal urge to nest and procreate. So, what do you think? Is 22 too young or just about right to take that big step? What is a good age to enter into that legal binding commitment? Or is there no good age?
2. I know that technology is a huge part of our lives, and the computer has become like an appendage to us. First thing every morning I’m signing on …
Some Friday Questions
This has been a tough week in Central Wisconsin. We have an wildly increasing murder and domestic violence rate compared to prior years, local scandal is reaching pandemic scale, and well we have what was initially thought to be a pandemic but now is appears to be a lot of similarly sick people, but we might turn that into a pandemic once flu season starts. So, maybe we should look to Friday Questions for a little relief.
1. Who do you consider a mentor? We all model ourselves or have people guiding us, who has guided you or been an inspiration …
Questions in Advance of Mothers Day
Sorry for the delay in posting these, I had to go shopping. In trying to think of my favorite Mothers Day story I came up with several. Too many to share really. So, I will just stick with questions.
1. Did you get your mom something, or did you just get reminded you need to go shopping?
2. What is your first memory of mom?
3. Was your mom cool to your high school friends?
4. How far do you live from your mom?
5. Are you a mom?
6. Will you be a mom soon?
7. What is your favorite mom story or memory?
Questions to see your way through the melancholy
1. Have you ever made an intoxicated fool of yourself?
Stories of my birthday party are sort of personal mythos, and my friend Eric is having a bachelor party this upcoming weekend, and I threw a few back with Robert Mentzer like a month ago, but I have a few stories that are not from my birthday that involve public drunkenness that sort of amaze even me.
2. Have you ever been punched in the face? Been in a slap fight? Had someone pull your hair out of anger? Have you ever been in a physical altercation? What did you think of it?
Questions inspired by Hound Dog Taylor
1. Do you own luggage, or do you cobble it together from friends and family when you travel? If you own, what do you own, why did you pick it, how long have you owned it? I remember traveling with my folks as a child and these amazing hard suitcases that seemed to be made out of amazing magic tough stuff. Where are those now?
2. Do you think it disingenuous when people like Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity decry “the media” in one breath, and in the next breath proclaim that “the media” has no listeners or readers, …
Three Questions to Kick April into Gear
1. What piece of advice would you give to a much younger “you” so that something would be a less painful experience?
My initial reaction to this question was that I try not to live with regrets, that even if awful things happened or I did really dumb things, they made me who I am today, so therefore, they aren’t inherently wrong. But really, I think that’s bull. I may love and accept myself now, but I still have a more highly refined compass now than I did back then. So I would tell myself to stay away from student organizations …
Five Questions as Fargo Drowns
News story referenced in title linked here.
1. Who do you complain to when you have a gripe?
I diffused a couple husband bombs this week when he came to me with work woes. When I need to complain, he usually hears the tales of tribulation. It’s a handy partnership.
2. Is anyone wrapped around your little finger?
My kids are the joy of my heart, and I’m a sucker for their twinkling eyes and riotous laughter. I don’t give them their hearts’ desires though. That’s bad parenting. I think the closest I ever came to having someone that I submitted to …