• Happiness is…

    My daughter having an exceptional week at school. This week went like a 50’s sitcom. It really was nice. I don’t mean to say that we haven’t had good weeks before, it’s just that they’ve been in short supply lately. It was nice to get one back.

  • What am I doing here?

    Have you ever found yourself sitting down on a Friday night with nothing to do; some notion that you would like to do something but little energy to do it and still less conception of what it might be? For me, it is an occasional bedfellow, and the burden I bear tonight in particular. I am coming down from my Sudafed high, so I’m rather tired. My mind however stubbornly asserts that it is only 9 p.m. on a Friday night. This is what I’ve worked all week for? There are times in life when you say to yourself, “if only I had the time.” Hello? Over here … free time … come and get it. So I spent the entire evening piddling around, wandering like a lost soul in my own home, and now I’ve decided it’s time to go to bed. Do you know what? I finally feel like I’m about to do something worth while.

  • Do things always come in pairs?

    We have known Beth to be influenced by TV advertising for some time. When she was three years old and could barely pronounce her full name she could, with perfect TV announcer intonation, declare to mommy and daddy that she really wanted “Cinderella II: Dreams come true, now available on home video and DVD.” Now she is starting to see the commercials for Spy Kids II. She already owns Toy Story II, The Little Mermaid II, and at least one other sequel that I can’t immediately recall. Her five year old mind has taken this phenomenon to the next logical step. Now we’re trying to explain to her that we don’t even know IF there will be a Lilo and Stitch II, let alone when it will be available on home video and DVD.