Scott Nagele's Blog

It was Tuesday when I cut my hand on a piece of bread. This tragedy requires a bit of backstory. I bought the bread, a $1.49 grocery store baguette, on Sunday morning. Big Man, who still refuses to eat middle school cafeteria lunches, asked for roast beef for his sandwiches this week. I don’t like […]

When we first moved into our house, my wife and I wanted a vegetable garden. A flat piece of lawn behind the garage seemed the best spot. There are a lot of hungry creatures, with big front teeth, in our neighborhood. We would need a fence before we planted anything. We had no experience building […]

Most of the appliances in our house are old. They are old and broken to some degree. They’re not completely broken, just mostly broken. They still kinda work though. It’s not just the expense that keeps us from buying new appliances, although, with three growing boys at home, there is not much money left to […]

If you have teen or pre-teen children and you don’t realize they are plotting to kill you in a myriad subtle ways, you’d better get wise. Society won’t forgive you for leaving those poor, helpless, homicidal maniacs orphaned when you might have done something to prevent it. One of the ways my children are trying […]

“Dad, how do I do this?” I get this question every time there is a big 4th grade or 6th grade project due. I thought I had completed both of these grades back in the 1970s. I never suspected I would be made to repeat them, and certainly not after this many years. Big Brother, […]

Big Man is in 4th grade, which is weird because, in my memory, he started Kindergarten yesterday. After school, I strain to contain my impatience with the car line so I can drive him the five minutes to home. On rare afternoons, we find ourselves driving behind a bus from his school that passes within […]

I’m not much of a traveler. Taking our family to Greece for 2.5 weeks was a big step for us, though my wife was the driving force behind the adventure. I learned some things in Greece, most of them not very useful in my everyday life at home, but a few of them mildly interesting. […]

If you are an American of a certain age, you grew up watching TV commercials starring the owners of local appliance stores ranting about how insanely low their prices were. They had names like Crazy Larry of Crazy Larry’s Appliance Emporium. At least once in the commercial, they professed proudly that “I must be completely […]

Our town has its summer fireworks display in late June as part of its annual celebration of itself. I don’t know if this move from July 4th is because fireworks rates are cheaper in June, or if we’re collectively sticking it to Mr. Jefferson, or if we’ve quietly switched over to the Julian Calendar. I’m […]

Okay, so the title might be a bit of hyperbole. I think that’s what marketing people do. I don’t have marketing people, so I have to exaggerate all by myself. But hey, have I told you about The Other Place, other than in two of my last three posts? That’s more marketing, as I understand […]