We have a picture in our head, someone tells us the exact steps to take, and the result isn’t quite what we imagined. We turned down the heat too soon, or we stirred the eggs too long.
Category: family
the secret life of Santa
The challenge is not to give people what they think they want, but to try and give them what they don’t yet know they want. Or at the very least, what they don’t remember that they wanted.
home for the holidays
Everyone is home for Christmas, our four adult children, their spouses and all the grandkids. It’s a houseful, with 16 of us counting Katie and me. We try to get everyone together every other year, and there are some things you learn. Like that you have to go to the store everyday. This year we… Continue reading home for the holidays
the end of men
As long as we have lazy and indifferent fathers our sons will be happy to let their wives take care of things. And to take charge of things.
end of summer redux
We’ve begun to build our fall list from the leftovers of our summer one. Every season has its resolutions and its regrets.
the daysman 