I know I’ve said this before, but I’m going to say it again anyway. I love to see my kids playing together. One of our big worries when Adam was born (besides how we were going to pay the bills), was that seven years would prove to be too big a difference for Beth and Adam to be really close.
Thus far, it seems those worries were unfounded.
These last couple weeks have been really…
Something as simple as throwing rocks can fascinate kids for hours. We spent hours at the rocky end of the island this afternoon tossing rocks back out into the surf (it was actually pretty calm this afternoon).
For whatever reason, there’s something deeply satisfying about heaving a big rock out into the water and making a big splash – and I’m not immune. We started out with the…
This one stands on it’s own (and does it admirably).
The Onion – 1/17/2001:
WASHINGTON, DC–Mere days from assuming the presidency and closing the door on eight years of Bill Clinton, president-elect George W. Bush assured the nation in a televised address Tuesday that “our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over.”
“My fellow…
“I’d rather burn in hell than pay her any money.”
A guy said that to me the other day. It’s nothing new. People say it all the time. It doesn’t come from all the folks we deal with; not even a majority of them. Still, despite our lofty goals, the harsh truth of my job is that you can’t always turn bad people into good people. There are some folks who seem to be…
… punched themselves in the face trying to remove a sock? It ranks right up there with hand v. ceiling fan, accidental dye jobs (the clothes formerly known as ‘whites’), bike v. parked car, unfortunate shirt/pants pairings, toe v. bed frame, and all the other things in life we learn the hard way.
Poor Adam. If he’s anything like his father, this evening’s…
Poor Adam stepped on another last week. Cheryl picked him up from school and took him to the doctor because he’d been coughing a lot. The doctor gave a listen to his lungs and gave a look of surprise. “Wow,” she said, “you’d never guess just looking at him that he’s wheezing.”
As the doctor said these words he was doing his impression of a perpetual motion…
Proposed amendment to the Florida Constitution, which will appear on the ballot this November:
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF FLORIDA THAT:
A new section for Article I is hereby created to add the following:
Inasmuch as marriage is the legal union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife, no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid…
Those wily Brits are up to something again…
Bags of Change: Carrot Better Than Stick – TreeHugger:
Bags of Change encourages responsible shopping bag use by dangling a tasty carrot. In short you get a discount at any participating store into which you to take their funky organic hemp-cotton or Amazonian latex bags. So far over 50 stores are involved.
I kid because I care. Actually, I…
It’s been a couple days since the Florida primary. Although I’ve spent most of them trying to cough up a lung, I’ve had a little time to read some news. Lucky for you I’m taking a sick day today, and a fever has a way of loosening my tongue a little ;-) After my little talk with lonely poll workers I’ve learned that turnout was actually up since our last Presidential…
The Liar’s Diary is a book by Patry Francis, a New England author with cancer. In her case the disease has been particularly cruel; it threw her a curve at a time when most authors are out promoting their book – right now.
Since she can’t get out to promote the book on her own, one of her friends organized a group of bloggers to do it for her.
And so far it’s apparently…