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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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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 [...]

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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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to my wife on our anniversary

June 1, 2009

Dearest Lisa,
We’ve been married seven years today.
Seven years ago we stood up at West End Collegiate Church in New York City and pledged our love for each other in front of everyone. And we didn’t mention Jesus because I didn’t want to and you said that was OK. And then we walked/floated out of the [...]

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old school

April 30, 2009

Owen is already learning you can’t go home again, even if he doesn’t understand that yet.
We’ve had pretty good child care luck. When Owen was born in 2005, Lisa took seven months off.
(Before you get all excited and start applying for her job, this was seven months without pay. Lisa’s an opera stage manager who [...]

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do not underestimate the power of the tummy

April 18, 2009

Owen is obsessed with Star Wars.
Owen is 3 3/4 (he’ll correct you if you say he’s 3 1/2), and obsessed with Star Wars. He’s probably too young for this fairly violent (and completely awesome) series of films (and cartoons – did you know there were cartoons?!). But we love it, and thought he would love [...]