Last week, I got summoned for Jury Duty. I spend most of Monday – Friday in the car or in a school, but I got chosen for Jury Duty. There are a bajillion people who don’t have lives that are completely focused on their five children, but they chose me for Jury Duty. Because every […]
A group of people with the best of intentions have decided that the path to a more compassionate community begins with the unmasking of those who hide behind anonymous. I have been sent the petition quite a few times now, but I will not sign it. The very worst case example for maintaining the guise […]
I recently made a joke on facebook about a house in our neighborhood that is home to several graduate students. It is easily identified by the couch in the yard, television on the porch and mailbox stuffed with frisbee golf discs. The twenty-something guys who live there always have bicycles or kayaks or some form […]
“Dad, I really can’t chat about bathtub drains right now.” “What’s so important that you won’t stop and talk to me?” “I’m on someone else’s clock. Can we do this later?” “Whose clock? What are you doing?” “I’m just cleaning up some messy code.” “I thought you just posted in chat rooms all day. When […]
8-year-old Amy carefully wrote the name of each classmate on a valentine. Some of the i’s were dotted with hearts. She signed her name to each one with extraneous swirls on her y’s. The list of names was doubled checked and the cards were tucked gently in a ziploc bag until Monday. 5-year-old Evan grumbled […]
I couldn’t lean back, touch the walls or let a single drop of water escape, but I took a bath. I took a bath in the new bathtub, in my bathroom, in my house. It felt amazing. Unbeknownst to me, while the water filled the tub, the downstairs bathroom was taking a shower. Since there […]
I have never shied away from my feelings that Scientology is a hokey scam, but I can not understand the fauxrage over a celebrity’s healing touch. In varied forms, laying on of hands is something that is practiced extensively by popular religions, including Southern Baptists. When my father was sedated on a gurney and being […]
Since there is still no way to bathe in our house and I can almost braid the hair on my legs, I have compiled a list of possible choices. 1. Apply for federal disaster aid to hire a contractor. – I don’t think self made problems compare to acts of nature, but Doug IS a […]
1. Everyone wears black. Do they have closets full of black clothing or are they wearing the same outfit repeatedly? 2. Hunter rain boots are everywhere. 3. I didn’t see a single picturesque clothesline connecting buildings. The movies lied to me. 4. We were treated with kindness by absolutely every person we met. In fact, […]