My Dad: Blogging From Eastern Oregon
How many people can say they’re just one of three bloggers in their family? Well, eat your hearts out, all of you, because not only is my kid brother Mechum penning missives from Seoul, but my Dad has also recently joined the ranks of the blognoscenti.
That’s right, he’s now rappin’ at ya live from Pendleton, Oregon, where he’s a high school teacher at the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. And he doesn’t simply have one personal blog. Oh, no. That would not be the Purnell way. My Dad — Brian (or Bri Guy), to the rest of the world — is presently rocking three, count ‘em three, blogs.
He’s got two for his various high school classes: Nixyaawii Community School Art and Nixyaawii Community School Journalism. And Dad has even introduced his j-class students to blogging; one of the most prolific posters so far is Min, an exchange student from (where else?) Korea.
Just yesterday, my Dad answered the call to create a new site for his entire school and — why not? — made it a blog (numero tres for him). Doing so was actually quite savvy, since a blogspot blog is not only free and easy to update, but he saved the school money on registering a domain name and possibly paying someone to create a site from scratch.
So anyway, great work, Purnell clan alpha-geek paterfamilias. You’re making your boys proud.