I found a post from Immoral Matriarch that inspired me to, like she did, list some of my favorite Muskrat moments from last year:
May: Muskrat is invited to speak at a local elementary school and posts the questions the children ask in Answers to the Children’s Questions. He is unlikely to be asked to return.
June: [...]
The summer after I graduated from high school, I was the rat at Chuck E. Cheese pizza in Goodlettsville, TN.
My last day was Friday, August 13; the next day, I was to begin packing for college. I’d worked all afternoon in the gameroom and only had about 15 minutes left before I would end the [...]
Today we went to Capitol Reef National Park. Then we went to Arches National Park. In Capitol Reef we saw 11 deer. We saw a black bull next to the road. Dad moo’d at it, and it looked at us real weird. I took a picture of him. Tomorrow we will go to Colorado. We [...]
Tuesday ,June 26, 1990:
Today, we drove to Glacier National Park. Kevin and I played in the snow and threw snowballs at cars. It was fun. We drove to the top of a mountain and then back down and out of the park. Then we crossed the border into Canada. I went to sleep until we [...]
I often take time on Thursday nights to look through “the vault” to see what I was doing 20 years ago and whether or not it’s worth publishing for the world to read (or ridicule). I certainly don’t expect to gain any insight from this exercise…I usually come away thinking I was not nearly as good [...]




