So 2007 comes to a close. How did it stack up?
617 the number of miles I ran
3 the number of half marathons I completed
2 the number of pairs of new running shoes I purchased
4 the number of Tiffany items I received this year
31 the number of books I read
8 the number of book cases bought [...]
Two days after Christmas: Belle looks around at all of the empty boxes and bags and vows to take them out to the trash, later, after she rests a bit, after she contemplates taking down all the decorations to get them out of the way before the New Year sneaks up on her.
The day after [...]
Well Elf, this is it. Your last night here. You are done. Finis! If all goes as planned, sometime around midnight Santa will arrive in his magical sleigh, with his eight tiny reindeer, and after he eats a few cookies and leaves some presents under the tree, he’ll grab you by your little elf hat [...]
Dear George Lucas,
Hi. How are you? We are fine. More or less. How would you like to come to our house for dinner? What’s your favorite regular non-famous person kind of food? I bet I could make it. Really, come for dinner. I have someone that I want you to meet.
My six year old son, [...]
When my son was 17 months old he decided to give the terrible twos an early try and threw a tantrum in which he flung himself to the floor hitting his head on a plastic toy. The cut that appeared over his right brow looked like a third eye socket, minus the eye itself.
My son’s [...]
To kiss my son goodnight… To kiss him goodnight, a peck on the lips or a kiss on the cheek without having to worry that a huge hive will appear, will spread, will swell his face into a grotesque balloon, constrict his breathing, kill him as he drifts off to sleep with me down the [...]
It appears that we have a new addition to our household. It’s an elf. No, it’s not a short child. I can be cruel but I’m not that kind of cruel. Even if we had added a dwarf child to our family I would not go around introducing him as our elf, not even at [...]
It’s 3:00 p.m. on Saturday afternoon and we are driving home after a morning filled with indoor soccer practice and an afternoon spent in a crowded mall buying Christmas presents for various friends and relatives. The conversation in the car is about to take a sudden left and then a sharp right into the religion of [...]
Having just purchased a new bed, one larger than I’ve ever had before, and consequently, new bedding to go with it, I am once again reminded of those formidable tags that hang off of home furnishings and threaten you with jail time if you so much as wave a pair of scissors in their direction. [...]
Dear Santa,
If the attached letter seems familiar to you it’s because I sent it to you last year. I wrote it myself right after breakfast on December 25, 2006. Today I got to thinking, and it hit me how December is the time of year that you get inundated with letters. And also, I started [...]
