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Drop thy pen and reach for the sky, Friend.
Kate was an overseer at a friend’s wedding this weekend. At a Quaker wedding, the overseers have a couple of very important jobs, not least of which are: Select, buy, and show up with at least three or four archival pens for people to use when signing the marriage certificate, and Stand by the marriage…
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Two of the many things a Healey is good for
I’m not sure how you write about visiting a point-to-point horse race in Chester County, PA without making everyone involved sound like a pretentious jerk. Sure, there are a lot of toffs at the point-to-point, but the toffs there are of the hardy, open-air variety. For example: Kate’s dad belongs to a five-member lunch club…
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Ultimate Water Gun’s next mission: Yale Wet Monday
“An Ultimate Water Gun request came in yesterday from one Matthew Brimer. (That’s him, second from the left — click goes to Flickr page) Here’s what Matthew had to say: “Good evening sir. I am a freshman at Yale University. At Yale, there are 12 residential colleges that all undergrads live in. I am a…
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It’s easy to pretend you’re super-dad when you have a cast of thousands
Kate’s at home now, God’s in his heaven, the birds are chirping in the trees, and all’s right with the world. Here are my thoughts on being in sole charge of a toddler for five days: 1. To begin with, I wasn’t in sole charge of a toddler for five days. Every day, I had…
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The three-stage coda of airline grief
Kate got stuck in Chicago last night due to weather, and was put through the five stages of airline annoyance: Denial: “Your flight is on time. We’ll be boarding in five minutes… despite the fact that the plane is, uh… still in Schenectady.” Anger: WTF? Stupid airline! #@#$@#$#@!!!!! Okay, I guess I can stop right…
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I’m sorry Mario, but OH NO THE FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE
The weather was so amazingly beautiful today that we went to the bike store and bought a toddler seat for the back of Kate’s bike (sorry, Kate, I commandeered your bike in the name of Justice.) We spent a long morning attaching it to the bike — since the lawn is a lot more toddler…
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Et in Arcadia Ego
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Ugh, I’m such a central-casting dad.
We have story time at 9:30, but I’m not sure if it’s at the West Chester Public Library, or the Exton Public Library. Damn, if there’s one impression I did NOT want to give with this whole taking care of the toddler for five days, it’s the amiably-befuddled dad who doesn’t know where anything is…
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It’s just baby and me!
Kate is off on her very first mommy-time-off trip, visiting a good friend in Seattle. She left at 6:30 this morning (Wednesday), and she’ll be back around midnight on Sunday. That means it’s just Lydia and me for five days! I’m really looking forward to this, though of course I’m a little nervous about it,…
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Mid-coast maine: the frozen shores where zealots dwell. And Baldwins!
If I were going to invent a character that runs a Christian health-food restaurant in midcoast Maine, I would imagine that he looks like a wide-eyed Dobie Gillis, giving off rays of intense, bean-sprout-y enthusiasm. And I might imagine that he works behind a great big linoleum church-basement-style space completely devoid of patrons. Scratch that…
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