When Sean was about 2 or 3 months old, he decided he wasn’t that into his pacifier. He would pluck it out of his mouth and throw it away as if to say, ‘This nipple-shaped piece of silicon isn’t fooling me, Dad.’ And then he’d resume crying. At 3 months, he was sleeping on his …
I defy you to read this New York Times piece and not ask yourself why this woman wanted children in the first place. Be sure to read the original Craigslist post. I understand we are biologically driven to procreate, but why do we have kids so other people can raise them? Is this some stubborn …
My latest Milspouse blog post is up. I’ve known for a long time that I needed to have a will drawn up, but, as usual, I put it off. Beyond needing a lawyer, I had no idea what was involved, and, hey, lawyers are expensive, aren’t they? After Sean was born, though, I couldn’t keep …
Yesterday my doctor told me I had to ease up on my coffee intake. The conversation went something like this: Doc: I bet you drink a lot of coffee. Me: That depends on what you consider a lot. Doc: How many cups would you say you drink in a day? Me: Well, how big is …
The Web Urbanist has a beautiful post about books as design elements. I especially like the color-coded library organization scheme. It reminds me a little of Rob’s autobiographically arranged record collection in the film High Fidelity. Maybe in the book, too; I don’t know; I haven’t read it. It looks like I could easily kill …
I guess I always knew the semicolon was an unpopular bit of punctuation. If you read enough, you can just sort of feel it. But I didn’t know the story of the semicolon was so entertaining: The semicolon has spent the last century as a fussbudget mark. Somerset Maugham and George Orwell disdained it; Kurt …
I know Sean will be awake in about six hours, so why am I still awake? Answer: Vanity. I’ll explain tomorrow, er, later today.
My friend John e-mailed me this link about ‘misery lit,’ a.k.a. ‘grief porn.’ While I’ve certainly been aware of it, mainly via supermarket and Target book sections that inevitably include copies of A Child Called ‘It’ and it’s sequels, this is the first I’ve seen about a specific genre or special bookstore section. Does Borders …
That’s right, we went to the Newport Clam Chowder Cook-Off yesterday with some friends. It was 80° and clear. A beautiful day to eat copious amounts of hot fatty chowder. There were, of course, interesting things to see (people, mainly). The best part of going to any of these summer festivals is the people watching. …
Sean and Danielle and I have entered a new phase of our relationship. About a week ago we started feeding him a little rice cereal in the afternoon. It was going well. It took a few days, but eventually he figured out that he was supposed to swallow the stuff we were spooning into his …
