The Armchair Squid

Blogging Year 18, here we go!   From the beginning, The Armchair Squid has been about storytelling.  Even in the initial sports blog stage,...

Blogging Year 17, here we go!   I don't have any big changes planned for the coming blogging year.  The schedule will be the same... Tue...

Blogging Year 16, here we go!  Looking back at last year's State of the Blog , I'm pleased to report that sophomore year of college ...

Blogging Year 15, here we go! As noted in my Squiddies post , the first year of the "empty nest" didn't go exactly as expected...

Blogging Year 14, here we go! Next week, we take our one and only child to college.  The impact on all three of our lives will be enormous. ...

Blogging Year 13, here we go! It's going to be a big year for my family.  Our daughter begins her senior year of high school tomorrow.  ...

Year 12, here we go! I don't foresee any major changes for The Armchair Squid in the coming year, at least not to the basic struct...

It's been ten years since I first launched The Armchair Squid - a full decade of blogging.  Back then, I had visions of developing a ...

“There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us ...

Music is a central focus of my life.  I am a music teacher, now entering my 16th year in public education, mostly vocal but with increasin...

It was a stressful year for this blogger.  The stress manifested itself physically and painfully in late May when I got shingles, an old m...

We've recently made some changes to my daughter's bedroom - nothing much but she's a creature of habit.  It was enough to make h...

The Squid is hungry.  While the bountiful waters of the past year have brought ample nourishment, he is never sated.  The Armchair Squid con...

Squid do not molt in the wild.  But here in the blogosphere, The Armchair Squid undergoes annual transformation, shedding the skin of the p...

The protagonist.  In literature, in film and in sports, identification with the protagonist keeps us coming back.  As Year 4 begins for The...

It has been a year of evolution for The Armchair Squid. No longer merely a sports blog, the Squid has moved into the realms of literature...

The Armchair Squid is one year old today. I started this blog with what I will admit was a rather amorphous vision. The idea first hatched...