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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]