Archive for January 2012
Name game
Clara celebrated her third birthday on Wednesday with a chocolate cupcake and a handful of presents. In my continued series of posts from Greetings Little One leading up to her birthday, another tidbit from the the birth of my daughter, originally written on January 27, 2009. This will be the last of these reminiscent posts.…
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Clara celebrated her third birthday on Wednesday with a chocolate cupcake and a handful of presents. In my continued series of posts from Greetings Little One leading up to her birthday, another tidbit from the the birth of my daughter, originally written on January 28, 2009. Today will be the last day for these reminiscent…
Read MoreGratitude journal: Patience
Tonight I am grateful to the patience that I have garnered over thirteen years of teaching and a lifetime of struggle. It was this storehouse of patience that allowed me to give our daughter the time she needed to calm down from a temper tantrum to end all temper tantrums. This was a knock-down, drag-out,…
Read MoreIt’s true. I have no neck.
My teeth were being X-rayed at the dentist’s office yesterday by the panorama device that rotates 360 degrees around your head. As the dental hygienist was preparing me for the x-ray, she asked that I stand up straighter. “I am,” I told her. Then she asked if I could crane my neck higher. “There’s not…
Read MoreShe works in cheese
My daughter is apparently becoming the Andy Goldsworthy of food. Or at least of dairy products. Though I think it’s important to find a cliché and exploit it, I’m not sure what kind of audience this kind of temporary art would garner. I wonder how much money Andy Goldsworthy makes in a year.
Read MoreGratitude journal: Dental technology
Tonight I am grateful for advances in dental technology that allow me to still have my teeth today. In a 1988 car accident that left me temporarily dead, my bottom row of teeth were dislodged when my jaw struck the steering on my way into and through the windshield. The entire row of teeth were…
Read MoreTwitter goodness
There are a lot of reasons that I use Twitter. One small but no less significant reason is the wisdom that I find amongst the people I follow. I read two especially insightful comments this weekend that I thought I would share. Following their actual name is their Twitter handle in the event you would…
Read MoreBest umbrella ever.
My wife and I are a little obsessed with the way our daughter says umbrella. We’re probably a little biased, but we find it unspeakably cute.
Read MoreClara’s first day: January 25, 2009
Our day began yesterday, at 11:53 PM, when your mother awoke me from about ten minutes of sleep to inform me that her water had broken. In fact, it was still breaking as I awoke. I could hear the splashing from the bed. Despite the hours of birthing class and hundreds of pages that Mommy…
Read MoreGratitude journal: Andy Mayo
Tonight I am grateful to Andy Mayo, the person who initially conceived of The Clowns, the rock opera for which I subsequently wrote the book. While I have enjoyed the writing process immensely and am proud of the work that we have produced, none of this would have ever happened without Andy. Though the plot…
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