Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Jessica, Second Grader, Simon says... on Jan 16th, 2015
Presented with parenthetical commentary by yours truly, Simon’s most recent school essay. My First Turniment Goal By Simon Whitworth Last weekend I went to a soccer tournament. (Or thee months ago. Same diff.) The soccer tournament was a 2 hour drive to Cincinnati with my mom and dad. The game was really early. The game […]
Posted in Family, Jessica, Second Grader on Dec 16th, 2014
The yin-yang of big kid-little kid with Simon has reached dizzying heights. Consider today: 1. I catch Simon singing the theme song to the “Men in Blazers” show. These are two British expats who do a podcast and television show about football, or as they like to mockingly say, “saaaacker”. If that doesn’t sound like […]
Posted in Jessica, Second Grader on Nov 30th, 2014
We are now a week or so out from fall soccer, and have gotten through what I will call re-entry. At first, with all that time on our hands and unseasonably cold temperatures outdoors, we were all on edge. What in the heck were we supposed to DO with ourselves? Honestly, none of us were […]
Posted in Jessica, Second Grader on Nov 24th, 2014
At the end of any training session for an endurance event comes the taper. This is when, having reached the point that you can run, bike, swim, whatever for the full race distance, you back off your training to recover and conserve energy in time for race day. I’ve only tapered once, for the half-marathon […]
Posted in Friends, Jessica, Second Grader on Nov 13th, 2014
Originally this post was going to be called “The Value of Losing” and was going to focus on how much Simon has learned about losing with grace from his experiences playing soccer. I was planning to pen that entry immediately after the King’s Hammer Invitational Tournament, which you may have gathered did not go so […]
Posted in Jessica, Second Grader on Oct 9th, 2014
If you look at the title of this post, you will see three words that should never, ever appear together. Kol Nidre is the name of the prayer that is recited at the very beginning of the evening Yom Kippur service. As Yom Kippur is the day of atonement, the very last thing one should […]
Posted in Jessica, Second Grader, Simon says..., Uncategorized on Oct 5th, 2014
About a year and a half ago, I dragged Simon out on a run with me. He was six and made it two miles, and I was pretty impressed. By the summer’s end, I decided he could run the Dare to Care Hunger Walk with me. Here’s what the Hunger Walk sounded like back then: […]
Posted in Jessica, Second Grader on Sep 30th, 2014
It’s report card day here in Jefferson County, and that means several things: free ice cream, donuts, and game tokens at local eateries for kids who get As; mounds of Facebook bragging by parents of the same. me complaining again about how much I hate the report card song-and dance. What began as suspicion and […]
Posted in Jessica, Second Grader on Sep 23rd, 2014
Much as I adore Simon’s role playing with Rainbow Dophie (the stuffed animal he’s been role-playing with for the last few months), there’s one aspect that’s been driving me around the bend: Dolphie has a speech impediment. Like many toddlers his age, Dolphie says his “r”s and “l”s like “w”s. I’m not sure where Simon […]
Posted in Jessica, Second Grader on Sep 19th, 2014
It has come to my attention in recent months that many more people than I knew are medicated for anxiety. Whenever I learn of someone who is benefiting from psycho-pharmacology, my thoughts inevitably turn inwards. “How can X be on meds and I’m not? I’m pretty tightly wound and neurotic myself. Is this something I […]