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The second day of this year turned out to be surprisingly good with not only a lot of nice relaxing, but some accomplishments too! It all started about 9:30 am when Gideon woke us up calling out “Mo-om… Mommy… Get out!” (meaning he wanted Ruth to come get him out of his crib) but didn’t […]

Another year has ended and a new one has begun. Despite the fact that it’s happened to me more than thirty-five times now it’s still a somewhat singular experience. Sure, it’s an arbitrary distinction based on a man-made calendar that has no real bearing on the operation of the solar system or even the earth. […]

Last week, Friday to be exact I stumbled across the CSSReboot website. Which is about redesigning websites using CSS on November 1. I had been thinking for a while that I needed to do something with the elegant but very plain variation of the Kubrick default WordPress template I’d been using, so I decided to […]

Gideon has become fascinated with coins. I suppose I can understand that. He’s twenty-two months old and coins are ubiquitous and interesting– they’re shiny (mostly), just the perfect size for grasping tightly in his hand and they come in different sizes, colors, and textures (and flavors, but fortunately he’s never put one in his mouth […]

Isaiah’s soccer game went a little better last weekend. They still lost, but his attitude was vastly improved over the first game and it seemed like they were figuring out more of what they were supposed to be doing. But I think his soccer team is going to turn out to be the same kind […]

Well, I’m thirty-seven today. I don’t really know what to say about that. I guess I’m another year older. Unfortunately I suspect I am not another year wiser. This does seem a good event to springboard my return to regular publishing, though. Isaiah is in first grade now. Tuesday evening was open house at his […]

Well summer is now officially gone– Isaiah started first grade today. In retrospect it seems like we didn’t do much this summer. I don’t even recall if we made it to the zoo one time, although we did have a good time at Mastodon State Park. There were a couple of reasons that we didn’t […]

Pretty soon after I got home tonight the sky grew dark and the gentle whisper of the wind through the trees increased in volume like a mighty river of air through the swirling and lashing branches as the temperature dropped. Isaiah asked if we could go for a walk as soon as I got home […]

Seven days ago on March 22, 2005 Isaiah turned six years old. The festivities surrounding this event started that Tuesday morning and much like his previous birthday, this one began with the first present. The present I gave to him on his birthday morning this year was very similar to the one given him last […]

I remember once when I was in college sitting in a buddy’s apartment watching the fish in their aquarium and thinking about all the work I wasn’t doing at that moment and when that work was due. “Man,” I thought to myself, “It’s Monday already. The week is almost over!” On the face of it […]