March 14th, 2005
Since I’ve started working from home full-time, I’m now privy to a wide range of activity that before I only knew about in theory. For example, my lovely and talented wife is hosting a birthday party for a friend’s child today. This generates many phone calls from other moms. I answered the phone while she [...]
March 14th, 2005
A couple of the older neighborhood boys were practicing their authority over one of the younger neighborhood boys today by keeping him off of their new skate ramp. One of them said that the younger boy couldn’t use it because the label on the ramp stated it was for children “8 years and up” and [...]
March 12th, 2005
Maggie found my blog via Google looking for the name of the band playing on some PBS Kids commercials — a post I only put up Feb 23. She was interested in the blogging concept, I helped her with some info, yadda yadda yadda, she has a blog! And she named me their “blog father”. [...]
March 9th, 2005
I recently completed my 33rd revolution around the sun. I don’t celebrate my birthdays. It seems silly to me to celebrate the anniversary of something so arbitrary. Of course we make a huge deal of our children’s birthdays. They don’t seem to mind that it’s arbitrary and my wife just rolls her eyes whenever I [...]
March 5th, 2005
I love this question. On the one hand, it’s fascinating that these little people are asking questions that I’ve long ago taken for granted. Why is it dark at night? Why can’t animals talk? Why do horses like to run? Why is fire hot? Why do we live here? Why can’t that man walk? Why [...]
March 4th, 2005
The children show me their teeth each night after they brush them. The lovely and talented wife recently bought them both shiny, new electric toothbrushes to replace their mundane hand-powered ones to help motivate them. The novelty hasn’t worn off yet. When they show me their teeth, they kind of sidle up to me, mumbling [...]