I tried posting this in response to something Stephen wrote at 4 Hour Life and it was deleted by hashbash or something like that, so I'm posting it here. I just checked out the rejection note and resubmitted it and it's now awaiting the moderator, who I'm assuming is Stephen. Ah, the world of computers. So anyway, I decided to post here … [Read more...] about Stop Stealing Dreams
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Mazda’s Eulogy
"The Scary Car" We drove my Mazda to the cemetery on Saturday. What a sad day. It's hard to believe what that car has been through and what it has represented in my life. How sad to morn a car but it was a car with so many good memories and now it will be crushed into a $1000 car pancake on Thursday. Oh if it could just pass one more smog. Memories 246,000 miles: It was … [Read more...] about Mazda’s Eulogy
Spring Revealed
We had a great weekend. The entirety which was spent outside. We frolicked with the family up at Meder Street Park, where Layla had me imagining again what it would be like to be little and have grass reach above my head, it must be a mysteriously outstanding world I thought. There is a tree up there, I call it the giving tree, it is perfect in every way, we sat we ate … [Read more...] about Spring Revealed
Food, happiness, and the joy of family
We just finished a wonderful meal of Swedish Pancakes. We watched as our daughter inhaled 5 of them, of course using her face and hands, not surprisingly in that order. It was delightful to see. She concluded the evening with a dance performance in the living room, complete with her newly discovered skill “the foreword roll” (i.e. summersaults). Kids when they smile do so in a … [Read more...] about Food, happiness, and the joy of family