July 2009

curling

July 21, 2009

I like saying parenting is like curling. You know, that sport in the Winter Olympics where they push a big heavy polished stone across ice and then frantically sweep in front of it with brooms to try and guide its course and make it go as far and as straight as possible but they can’t [...]

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OK, break’s over.

July 15, 2009

Today I embarked upon my search for a job. This is not within my comfort zone. Many people, likely many of you, have changed jobs many times. Sometimes by choice, sometimes not. I have been at the same company for 12 years, and fully believed I’d have the option to be there for my entire [...]

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could there be a cuter evil laugh?

July 10, 2009

For Father’s Day I did an interview with Tatiana over at It Was A Very Good Year. One of her questions was what badass things my kids have learned from me. Here’s one.

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fighting nature

July 8, 2009

I see myself in my kids. This can be good and this can be bad. Something I’m seeing now in Owen, who will be four in a couple of weeks (and again, where the hell did four years go?), is my tendency to sit around like a lump. Watching TV, playing video games, generally avoiding [...]

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dangers of re-entry

July 1, 2009

In high school I experimented with various mood-altering substances. There was alcohol, naturally, but also marijuana and one really lovely afternoon on hash trying to play it straight in front of our friend’s mom as she drove us home. To this day I don’t know if she knew how high we were, but I can’t [...]