Clothing adds at least five pounds.
I found this in my closet this morning. Apparently my daughter is bestowing concerns about weight and body mass index upon her toys. She’s growing up so fast.
Tilly and the Wall: Who needs a drummer when you have tap shoes?
I often claim (with excessive pride) that I have introduced my wife to more positive things in her life than she has introduced to me. Television shows, friends, activities, locales.…
Ready for fifth grade
My wife and my daughter were in the car behind a motorcycle rider without a helmet. My wife was explaining to Clara how dangerous it is to ride on a…
Extreme teaching, including home invasion and theft
An article in the Wall Street Journal entitled School Reform, Chicago Style described a school district’s policy of providing habitually tardy and absentee students with a wake-up call each morning.…
Kissing tiny feet
Each night, as she listens to my wife read to her, I lift my daughter’s tiny feet from my wife’s lap and kiss them. She smiles at me. Sometimes she…
Everything dies. I get it.
The relatively young, previously healthy tree in my front yard appears to be dying for no discernible reason while the identical tree about twenty feet to the left is perfectly…
Don’t trust a good name when it’s too good.
I distrust convenient names. For example, does anyone else find it a little too convenient that the fastest man in the world is named Usain Bolt? Bolt? C’mon. Doesn’t this…
When choosing a spouse, acceptance isn’t enough.
When my children are is old enough to understand, I am going to offer them some advice in regards to ideal spousal identification. My friend, Kim, tells her children that the most…
Making great use of our Hurricane Irene entrapment
My wife spent a portion of our Hurricane Irene morning teaching Clara to type. Apparently she has been learning that letters in combination amount to words as well. In addition…
Resolution update: August 2011
1. Lose 23 pounds, bringing me down to my high school track and field weight. Down 21 pounds as of this morning. I may be setting a new goal shortly. …
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