Anyone else find it a wee bit ironic that at the opening weekend of WALL-E–a film about the devastation of Earth by mankind, a film about how humans had to abandon the planet because they had so trashed it, a film that opens with a good thirty minutes of visual magic about the literal mountains [...]
[Note: I've been toying with the idea of updating more, instead of just on Wednesdays. I'll give it a try, see how that goes.] Adam went to Philly for a wedding yesterday morning. He’s to fly back this morning. There was concern about him drinking and having fun all night and then making his early [...]
Those Peace Lovin’ 1960sJune 25, 1968: I was born. Flower and Fifth Hospital in New York City, although my parents at the time were living in West New York, New Jersey.This causes three decades of debate (it wasn’t an issue that first decade) of whether my home state is New York or New Jersey.1969: TV [...]
Conversation from last week: Me: Do you want to get Daddy something for Father’s Day?Doodles: I know what to get him!Me: Are you going to make him a card?Doodles: No, we should get him something.Me: What?Doodles: A baby!Me: What do you mean?Doodles: We should have another baby!Me: Where would this baby come from?Doodles: Your belly.Me: [...]
Part OneWe hit the local thrift shop and Pie immediately gravitated toward a particular book,What Is a Princess. The last spread of the book reads, “And princesses live happily ever after” with the final page a picture of Cinderella in her wedding dress with her prince (in all fairness, it also tells that princesses are [...]
I’m at that point of parenthood where when my son asks at 1:11 in the afternoon if he can take off his clothes so he can marry his sister, I don’t even look up when I say, “Sure.” I also say ridiculous things like, “I’ve told you! No shoes upstairs on the carpet! I want [...]
The Nana was visiting last weekend, and while she was here, we decided to watch Walk the Line, the Johnny Cash biopic. In the opening of the film, it reads, “Folsom Prison, 1968.” Me: 1968! That’s the year I was born!Adam: Yes it is.Me: That was forty years ago, you know.Adam: Yes it was. A [...]
I find it hard to post when Adam’s out of town–as he is again. Normally, throughout the day, when I’m supposed to post, I think, “I can blog about X. Maybe I’ll blog about Y.” But when Adam’s gone, only one thought runs in my head, all day, the constant refrain, starting at 7 a.m.: [...]