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It's ALL You
To all of the mothers in my readership: Happy Mother's Day. Dear Kid, A smidgen more than fifteen years ago, you were brought into a world tempered by hormones and instinct, but bearing the earmarks of turmoil. The… -
General Mayhem
It's been a few weeks since I posted with anything resembling regularity. In some respects, there have been tremendous strides. In others, a marked decline. This entry will serve as an update. Again, I want to thank eve… -
If There's a God, He's Gunnin' for Me
Seriously? Are you freakin' serious? Dad's still in the ICU. Still on the ventilator. Still covered in clear plastic tubing and hooked up to half a dozen monitors. Absolutely no change in... well, anything. I'm still n… -
ICU Dad. Can you hear me now?
The Voice and I arrived at the family waiting room to find my younger brother and aunt. We sat down and had a conversation that must be similar to a military briefing; everyone compared intelligence and synchronized know… -
Mundacity at its Finest
The Kid is heading off to Wednesday night services at the ginormo-church. The Voice is still at work. I am currently dwelling in cave-like conditions with Bones blaring overhead on TV. (I just realized that Bones is a Fo… -
Parents Say The Darnedest Things
Growing up, we make a lot of promises about how our future-selves will act and what we will do or say. Every time the injustice of parental wrath was visited upon us, we vowed that we will never treat our children that w… -
Witness to a Testimony
For a number of reasons, organized religion is not a viable option for me. Long ago, my faith in the church I'd attended for most of a decade was destroyed, along with the image of God that I had loved, feared, and rever… -
Last Night
Before I got so distracted by the need to blog about the death penalty, I was pretty jazzed about the night's event. Not only did the Voice and I dress up a little and go out... to an establishment... with other people..… -
Hell in a Handbasket: Parenting Do Nots
The Voice was talking to a coworker today about parenting skills that often go uncelebrated. The Voice made an offhand comment about his coworker "feeding his paranoia" that prompted his coworker to relay a story about h… -
Please Stop That
Heading to the kitchen with a plate in one hand and a fork in the other, I crossed the sunken landing at the top of the basement stairs by the back door and entered the echo chamber just in time for another piercing pood…
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Today and Tomorrow
He was twenty years old and entirely too cool to e... -
It's ALL You
To all of the mothers in my readership: Happy Moth...
