It’s no secret that I hold a special place in my heart for Maddie Spohr. The current design of this website and the post I wrote on her birthday are testaments to that fact. It’s also no secret that in Thomas, Liz and I have a very astute and observant little boy. He is truly [...]
Author Archives: Ben
Golden Boy Swears
it’s bed time we are in the midst of Thomas’ bed time routine after the race to his room, his music playing we’re wrestling, a new activity he charges at me before veering off while taking a wild swing at me he’s particularly ferocious tonight he stops and looks at me with his terrible eyes [...]
Bumps in the Night
As you may have noticed, I have a hard time updating this blog on a regular basis. The problem is that I have a hard time following through on anything that I don’t have a sense of obligation to complete. It’s a definite limitation. One that I’m challenging myself to overcome. Part of my strategy [...]
The Smartest Person I Know
Five years ago yesterday, a very pregnant Liz and I had just placed our order for dinner at the neighborhood IHOP. The waiter brought us our drinks. I gazed lovingly at my pregnant wife. She gazed back and said, “I think my water just broke.” Now, things like this tend to happen during pregnancies, so [...]
Wonder Woman!
If you don’t know, Liz, my lovely wife, has a new blog which she’s thinking of updating a bit more regularly than her current mostly family oriented one. The new site can be found at LackingSuperPowers.com
Happy Birthday Maddie
I’ve been meaning to write a post about Madeline Spohr for a long time. If you don’t know Maddie’s story you can read about it at her mother’s blog The Spohrs Are Multiplying. I highly recommend it, her mother, Heather, is a wonderful writer. You would be hard pressed to find a more engaging set [...]
Halloween, A Love Story
Let me, One Eyed Jackalanta, tell you a horribly beautiful Halloween love story. Full of woe, well mostly for the parents who require much larger quantities of sugar to become wild raving lunatics with no care for pain in feet or fatigue in their spirits. Our Heroes: A knight disguised as a child dressed as [...]
Heroes
Note: I have had many blogs over the years. My earliest was started in 2001. That original blog was horrible. I wrote about things like staple removers. Really. It was awful. But occassionally I wrote a few good ones. This was my best. It comes from September 16, 2001. I republish it today for obvious [...]
First Day
Drop Off Pick Up We peered through the window of the door out to the small playground on the back side of the school, looking for our little boy. “Do you see him?” Liz asked. I shook my head. “He’s there, in the sandbox,” she said. He was kneeling next to another boy. They were [...]
