Another snow near-miss looks likely today. Here comes the cold, but there goes the water, and simultaneity is but a wispy phantasm. Finish Christmas shopping this week; Christmas lights this weekend; Christmas cards next week; relax. Sheesh, what can you even say about the Illinois governor scandal? Might this be beyond parody? I’d call Blagojevich … Read more
The second baby is less stressful. You’ve burned all of your neurotic oil on the firstborn. You bring perspectives and the accordant wisdom to the younger. Ha! Nathan never really freaked me out. At about two months he developed a bump on the side of his head that doctors told us was almost certainly a … Read more
I recently read a post from last year in which nhfalcon shared his thoughts, and it looked like fun. So here’s what I have to say about Christmas music. When I was a little boy, Dad sang in our church choir, and they performed Handel’s Messiah every year during Advent. The choir was a serious … Read more