The holidays are over, 2010 is here, and we’re typing this year. Let’s start with… The Holidays: A Brief Review. Now believe it or not, and I’ve been known to lie, but this holiday saga starts at a Borders Bookstore, with a boatload of books and no coupons. Now everybody knows the thing to do […]
“Daddy, do the Japanese keep moving their mouths after they’re finished speaking?” Oh man. I really need to mind what he’s watching on TV better…
To Number One Son, who is nine today. I wasn’t worried a bit, since I remember my own parents wondering if I was going to live past 8 years old myself – seems to be that magical "you’re going to get yourself killed" age. Nine years old – make it nine more and you’re outta here, […]
It’s good to have goals, particularly if you’re a young, impressionable, gonzo 8-yr-old like Number One Son. Coming up on the end of second grade, he’s declared his major – Pre Med. He’s decided that he really wants to be a surgeon when he grows up. (His idea of a good time is watching "Trauma: […]
The children learn many things from SOBUMD and myself, and – usually – this is a good thing. Learning being a two-way street, we learn many things from them also. When they were younger, many of these things involved measures of distance, measures of volume, and human orafices – stuff that I had never really […]