In four days time the first trimester will be over. This is just the kind of milestone that warrants reflection. No, seriously.
We’ve ushered in the concept of multiple birth to our consciousness. We’ve had climactic doctor’s visits. We’ve listened to the sound of heart beats seemingly in stereo. We’ve discovered Beth is clever enough to notice when a bulge appears in…
I’ve heard it said that being a fighter pilot can be described as 10 hours of boredom followed by 30 seconds of terror. The same can be said of being a husband. Tonight was a case in point.
I was sitting in the living room, minding my own business, with my iBook firmly entrenched right where it belongs – in my lap. I had been there for quite some time, so this was not a sudden…
I find the notion that I must march lock-step with the POTUS in order to be a real American preposterous. Ah, but I’ve already been on that rant so I’ll take a pass on it for now. No, what got me going this time was an interview on the public radio program “Marketplace” on Friday. They were discussing politics, specifically presidential candidate John Kerry’s position…
There’s this thing that happens when I watch an emotional movie. I am placed in this persisting state, like the movie drove me someplace and dropped me off. Now I’m left to walk back, but it’s going to take a while to get there on foot. More often than not it’s the little, un-expecting flic that takes me there. I’ll be sitting in the family room alone, watching this…
While I find the adage “there’s no such thing as a stupid question” debatable, it is clear that not only IS there such a thing as a stupid answer, they are plentiful. As these entries tend to go, there is a reason I bring this up. Step this way.
I am home after a physically tiring day. My stomach is digesting dinner and a haze has descended over my eyes. I’m lounging in the…
Beth was sitting in the bathroom requesting assistance. We told her that she was too old for that kind of assistance and that she needed to do it herself. She spent the next twenty minutes not doing it herself, asking repeatedly for the assistance that would never come.
“MOM, ARE YOU IGNORING ME?”
Mommy answers with more silence.
“MOM, YOU CAN’T IGNORE ME!”
Mommy…
There is another state agency that recently started working closely with my department. From our perspective, there have been severe problems with the transition. With that very brief set up, let me tell you what happened this morning. A meeting was scheduled for nine a.m. Management at our office was supposed to have a little face to face with management from their office. Mostly everyone from…