when it gets hard and you are who you hate
I am kicking Ginny out of our house for 2.5 days come Tuesday. She deserves more. But this currently seems tantamount to cresting Everest- so we’ll celebrate instead of mourn the fact that 2.5 days is a gold medal moment. I am the very dad that scoffed at fathers who acted like they were super heroes when they took care of their own kids…behaving as though they had done something worthy of a cookie. Or- worse yet- call dad a “babysitter” and I would verbally molly wop you upside the head. “it’s really more fatherhood than babysitting don’t you think?” …
books, clubs & imaginary conversations
When you take long breaks from blogging, you have stuff to pass on to the world- the one you actively ignored for a while. Sorry ’bout that. My soul thanks you for your grace. 1.) I am working on a children’s book. Admittedly, this is sort of like saying, “I am working on a rocket.” It takes a LONG time and it may NEVER fly and I DON’T understand publishers; especially the ones who don’t see me as Hemingway reincarnated. I prefer to keep all thing uncertain to my chest. So this is a big break through (or something…
on chasing, tickling and not writing
It has been a while. I know your life must have seemed incomplete without my typed- up musings. I see that you have found a way through my absence. As have I. My last blog post ranted on the cyclical nature of blogging and the whole phenomenon of the fear of being quiet. So, I decided to swallow my own medicine. To walk away from the blog for a while. Though it seems trivial, even silly, to admit…..I like writing. I want to be a writer. I am a writer. I want everyone to like me. I want publishers to…
I am kicking Ginny out of our house for 2.5 days come Tuesday. She deserves more. But this currently seems tantamount to cresting Everest- so we’ll celebrate instead of mourn the fact that 2.5 days is a gold medal moment. I am the very dad that scoffed at fathers who acted like they were super…
When you take long breaks from blogging, you have stuff to pass on to the world- the one you actively ignored for a while. Sorry ’bout that. My soul thanks you for your grace. 1.) I am working on a children’s book. Admittedly, this is sort of like saying, “I am working on a…
It has been a while. I know your life must have seemed incomplete without my typed- up musings. I see that you have found a way through my absence. As have I. My last blog post ranted on the cyclical nature of blogging and the whole phenomenon of the fear of being quiet. So, I…