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
he swings his terrible claws into the [...]
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Golden Boy Swears
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 [...]
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 a [...]
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 playing with some toy [...]
The Exciting and Amazing Golden Boy
So Thomas starts preschool today. It’s a momentous occasion. He’s leaving behind friends that he has known his whole life. He’s leaving behind a comfortable, safe and happy existence and moving on into something new and unknown. I asked him how he felt about starting school and he said “I’m going to miss [my friend] [...]
