There’s a certain danger to meeting the wife and baby for lunch in the middle of a big steaming pile of a work week.   That danger is the pressing temptation to just simply not go back to the office and hang out with these two pleasing individuals for the rest of the afternoon.  Today, I […]

Wednesday. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Usually, our household goes non-traditional for the big feast, with reasonably good results (last year’s duck was excellent). This year, I was leaning toward something a little different – lamb or something; but the kids voiced their opinion for tradition. So, for the first time in years, I’m making a turkey. […]

In a somewhat atypical turn of events, I actually got out this weekend to do some interesting things… With the girls planning to take in the Richmond Ballet studio performance Saturday afternoon, and not feeling like sitting around all afternoon, Andrew and I took a little drive to the Metro Richmond Zoo around mid-day. The […]

Yesterday on the way back from ballet class, Mary asked me, while wearing her Totoro shirt, when we can travel to England so she can buy the really good Doctor Who toys.  She’s also eight years old and a huge Bruce Campbell fan.  Sometimes life goes out of its way to remind me that despite all the […]

Happy Wednesday dear readers, all half-dozen of you! I compose this small missive from the lobby of the Richmond Ballet building in beautiful downtown Richmond.  As has become habit in the last month or so, I’ve taken the mid-week taxi shift to haul my firstborn child to her ballet class; since it takes a good […]

The work I had back in July achieved the desired result. Quite a relief. The wife says I was way too excited after the doctor’s office called this afternoon. Personally, I think throwing ones arms into the air and shouting “YATTA!” Hiro Nakamura style is a perfectly valid reaction to this news. Life rolls on […]

Woke up this morning (for the second time; the first time was at 1am after I fell asleep on the couch a few minutes into Heroes last night) to find a baby guppy in the two gallon tank – there may be more; this one beat fins for the big clump of moss once the […]

Nana and Catherine sharing a hearty laugh, or yawn, or something: People should really know better than to have me take a picture – I’m really, really awful

I continue to wait, with a scratch in my throat and lungs full of phlegm. Beyond the crud in my system, the weekend was nice, with Nana and Pap Pap coming down to visit. The timing was rather fortuitious, as Catherine just this week figured out how smiling is supposed to work – really made […]

In my desperation for something to read this week after knocking out Laurie King’s third Mary Russell story, I spent a few minutes sifting through the large, often precariously-stacked book piles scattered throughout my house, and discovered something I had no idea we actually had. I know I certainly didn’t purchase it, and I’m pretty […]