Think back a bit. No, further… further…a little further… Nice try. You aren’t THAT young. Go all the way back to when you were a kid. Six years old, maybe eight, maybe ten… Remember when you got all overly excited about Halloween? Remember the costumes that came in a box and consisted of some type [...]
Driving home after a birthday celebration for my mother-in-law, we pass the site where my brother-in-law’s pastry shop is going to be. It’s officially under construction, but so far the construction looks like a lot full of turned up dirt with a few stakes in the ground.
Snags, riding in the back seat of the car, [...]
So I was listening to NPR yesterday and… Yes, I listen to NPR! You got a problem with that? Anyway, like I said, I was listening to the Diane Rehm show on NPR yesterday morning and Diane and her guests were talking about Bram Stoker’s Dracula. It’s a book I haven’t ever read but now [...]
Once upon a time there was a girl. She liked to run. She liked Tiffany’s. The jewelry store, that is, not other girls named Tiffany. Although she assumed they were very nice as well. The girl in our story wasn’t rich enough to shop at Tiffany’s very much, and she’d never eaten breakfast there at [...]
R.S.V.P. It’s French. It means répondez s’il vous plait. Translated into English it means get off your lazy ass, pick up the phone, and call the number on the invitation I sent you and let me know if you are coming to the party or not. If I don’t answer the phone, just leave a [...]
Dear Child of Mine,
You know those little squares of a papery material that I put in your lunch box everyday? Those would be NAPKINS. You are supposed to wipe your hands and face with them during and after eating your lunch. And then you can throw them away with the rest of your trash.
You don’t [...]
What would happen if every blog published posts discussing the same issue, on the same day? One issue. One day. Thousands of voices.
Well that would be Blog Action Day. And that would be today. And the issue, or theme as it were?
The Environment
What, you may ask, do I know about the environment? Well, I know [...]
As I was driving to work today there was a very nice looking Cadillac SUV in front of me. It had a vanity plate that said 4 God. And below that, on the plate’s frame, was this:
Everything I Have Is
And I thought, even your Cadillac? Really? How do you plan to get that pretty SUV [...]
You know that movie Children of the Corn? I think I know how the kids came to live in the corn. They were originally a kindergarten class on a fall field trip to a corn maze and the chaperones, well, they got hot and tired of walking in circles through the corn, so they told [...]
The instructions were as follows:
Examples were provided:
I read the instructions and went over the examples with Snags. We made a list of things he might want to include in his picture dictionary. The list contained items like: penguins, turtles, our dog, Luke Skywalker, soccer.
Confident that Snags understood what he was supposed to do, I left [...]
