the hard stuff

happy belated blogiversary to me

April 27, 2010

I missed my own blogiversary. This blog is now one-year old. Yay blog! I started badassdadblog on April 14, 2009. That first post was titled “stuff that’s hard,” and in the 12 months since, I think I’ve done my share of that sort of stuff. I’m not sure a full recap of the last year [...]

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fear

January 28, 2010

For the first time today, I really missed my old job. I got an email from a friend and former coworker about her visit to the office where we used to work, to have lunch with people we used to work with. Reading her note, the pang of remorse I felt came as a complete [...]

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what the backyardigans can teach you about god

December 18, 2009

Christmas snuck up on me this year. It often does, and I know I’m not alone. The older I get, the faster time accelerates. I fully expect to wake up any day and find out it’s 2025. Which will be cool, because surely by then we’ll be able to teleport. But Christmas snuck up on [...]

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who do you trust?

December 2, 2009

This is my first entry in the Write-Of-Passage Writing Well Challenge. Like Mrs. Flinger, whose brainchild this challenge is, I like good writing. I read blogs to get a sense of the personalities behind them, but mostly I read them for stories. Well told stories. Yes, this includes using reasonably good English and not murdering [...]

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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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happy birthday, little brother

June 2, 2009

Hi. This post is a bit messy. I don’t want to start with an apology, but I think an explanation is warranted since this is so different from what’s usually on this blog. All this happened 14 years ago. Though I think about it nearly every day, it’s doesn’t haunt me like it used to. [...]

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