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Happiness is…

The last ten years have flown by in the blink of an eye. I have, over those last few years, from time to time watched television with my little buddy in the brown chair. At least one of us, though, is getting bigger. As we were sitting together earlier today, watching […]

Holy Crap, I Did It

You won’t have noticed that this blog has been laying dormant for a couple of years (define “couple”, bro). You probably won’t even have noticed that for at least the last year or so, trying to navigate to the blog produced an annoying nothingness…no error message, no text, no graphics, just….nothing. Argh.

I have tried […]

Hello From Ben and Daddy

Hi there! It’s been a loooooooooooooong time, though Ben says it “hasn’t been that long”.

Ben is interested in writing a bit in a blog about books, so I am showing him how to make a blog post. Here – in form, if not in substance – it is.

“You caught me *just* […]

Hello…again?

Been a while. Going to try to get back ’round these parts again. Soon. Ish. Yes, I know, you’ve heard that before.

From “Sparkle Street” in Ottawa.

His Mind Works in Three Dimensions

Ben built an “Octonauts Playset from McDonalds” tonight out of card stock and Scotch tape.  It’s a fairly sizeable cube-shaped object with a door cut into it (for easy insertion of seafaring animal explorers, no doubt.)

It’s the logical sequel, I suppose, to his work from earlier today: “How To Make Tree House”, [sic] a […]

Is it wrong…?

…to go nearly two years without a post? Should I not have done that?

 

Huh.

Old X Wing Fighter, New User

Using the force apparently causes one to purse his or her lips in a rather pronounced fashion.

Vacation Day One: A Golf Lesson

It’s vacation 2013! Spouse and I have been off since the beginning of July. Up ’til now, we’ve been stay-cating; we’ve been doing some (but only some) of the (many) chores that need doing around the Juniorvanian estate. That’s been mostly successful – financing arrangements had to be made as the end of a […]

Growth and Change

Ben has learned to use the hose; mostly to shoot daddy in the face with it.

Change: the incremental grows fundamental

And all around is new

I looked away for just a minute

Now looking back at you

I could have sworn you were so much smaller

Now squeaks and sleeps are memories

Setting […]

Inspirational

Wow. The more I read of his stuff, the more upset I become that David Foster Wallace is no longer around to think about things and then tell us his thoughts.

TV-watching as a malignant cycle doesn’t even require special preconditions like writerly self-consciousness or loneliness. Let’s for a second imagine Joe Briefcase as now […]