Clint woke up with terrible allergies today.  It happens occasionally, but it rarely hits this hard and lasts this long.  He looked — and felt — completely miserable; his eyes were red and watery, his nose was running, and he sneezed two or three times every few minutes.  He tried everything he could think of […]

We started off the day with a phone call from Deb, (wishing Clint a happy birthday) followed in quick succession by phone calls from a lady we intended to buy a desk from (for Alexander), and from Curt; he, Ginny, David, Del, and Colleen sang Happy Birthday to Clint and then they were off to […]

To start, let me just say that I loved my original wedding ring; I would happily have worn it until it broke, even after the stone fell out last August.
The thing is, the stone fell out at Grandma’s house while we were there cleaning it out after she died. She had given me her […]

I took the kids with me to run some errands this afternoon, and managed to skip Christina’s nap in the process. She fell asleep while we were walking through Big Lots (in an attempt to find a clock for Alexander’s room,) and protested mightily when I tried to slip her carefully into her car […]

For our first Christmas together, I bought Carole a subscription to Real Simple, which she loved but never got around to getting for herself. It’s been coming ever since.
Over the past few months, she’s been keeping a stack of them in a basket in the bathroom for that kind of reading. The fact […]

I’ve subscribed to an e-mail newsletter from Tim Larkin, a former SEAL who’s developed a self-defense system he calls Target Focus Training. Unlike typical self-defense classes and all martial arts instruction, which focus on a wide menu of moves to parry specific attacks, practiced ad nauseam, his teaches a few aggressive, highly-targeted (hence the […]

You can’t really see it yet, unless you happen to be standing in just the right spot, at just the right time, and she happens to open her mouth without sticking out her tongue — but you sure can feel it with the tip of your finger!
I was fixing my chicken salad sandwich for lunch […]

Carole is known to say things without thinking them completely through, often with intriguing and humorous results. I don’t remember when this one happened—it’s been a few weeks ago—but I was talking about how I’m a mimic when it comes to writing. I can’t write real people unless I know them well enough […]

is finally up!
(I’m sure it could stand to be edited some more, but it’s up!)

Giving things away, that is.
We gave away our old refrigerator today. We’d intended to sell it, but never got around to posting it, and we finally decided that we just wanted it gone. I took a couple of pictures and posted it online, in craigslist’s free section. I figured I might get […]