Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Aug 10th, 2010
Simon has lots of plans for when he’s a grown-up, and they aren’t the dreams of blasting off into space, digging up dinosaur bones, or driving a racing car that I would have expected. Not yet, anyway. Nope, his dreams are a bit more prosaic at present. “When I’m a grown-up,” he tells me, “I’m […]
On Friday, August 6, at about 10:40 a.m., my friend Gabriel (birth name Kwai Akech Kwai) became a family man in the truest sense when his wife Alek and daughter Agotich arrived from Khartoum, Sudan, via Amman, Jordan, and Chicago, Illinois. And what a long, strange, trip it was. They met four years ago through […]
Which is good, because I’m too tired to write right now. That will come later. But all you really need to know–or see–is this:
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Aug 5th, 2010
I don’t know how he does it, but Simon is aces at being attracted to toys I can’t get. He had an entire week at camp themed “Disney” and never once asked for a Mickey or a Minnie. They had an Alvin and the Chipmunks week that also yielded no requests. Beach week resulted in […]
Posted in Friends, Jessica, Little Boy on Aug 4th, 2010
EVERYONE has their own stories to qualify the brutality of this summer’s heat wave (hottest on record here in Kentucky). The New York Times ran a funny piece last month that measured the misery in terms of utility workers’ overtime pay, the physical toll on firefighters and police officers, and the stir-craziness of New Yorkers […]
Posted in Career Change, Jessica on Aug 1st, 2010
I quit posting my career change stuff because it seemed so overwrought and self indulgent once I got the boot. I haven’t decided if that stuff will see the light of day yet, but one part of an un-posted thread reared its head again two weeks ago. When I first began career counseling, back in […]