We took the whole crowd to Tommy’s psychiatrist appointment (“Let’s lower his Prozac, he seems a bit too animated.”) and then to Sarah’s Open House at the middle school. While we were gone Molly decided to eat the earpiece off Sarah’s glasses. I told my mother about Noah’s appointment with the hematologist and she casually […]

If you communicate with your spouse via IM even when you are in the same house, you are both probably bloggers. 

Random questions – I wouldn’t dress football players in shiny white pants. Why don’t they wear something dark to hide stains? It would look much more durable. Why do overweight football players feel okay running around in skin tight clothes while tall thin basketball players wear baggy shorts that droop to their knees and wife […]

You’re preaching to the choir Bubba, but keep shouting from our mountaintops.

Remember a month ago when I asked Noah’s pediatrician and his ENT why there was a red flag on the blood work the hospital did during his nose bleed? Well, just as I had forgotten it the ENT called this evening and asked me to please get an appointment with the hematologist because it’s an […]

No new library for Knoxville. If Knoxvillians had their way, they’d say no to every change and new expense. In other Knoxville news, they put someone who is clearly a danger to society in jail. I’ve visited and interviewed teens at Taft (yes, including one of these teens) and adults at Brushy Mountain and people […]

Noah just asked me to play “The Motorcycle-Pickle Song” CD. That would be a strange request from most 8-year-olds but since his in-utero favorite was The Beatles and the first song we ever taught him was “Spiders and Snakes” (complete with gestures), I blame our ancient music taste. When he was 4 we went to […]

Catawampus, the blogger we all wish our children could have for a teacher led me to this. Pretty interesting stuff.

Strengthen The Good: Operation Charley Last week I talked about Strengthen the Good, whose tagline reads “Don’t just fight evil: Strengthen the good.” It is all about using many blogs to raise awareness about micro-charities and hopefully do some good in the world. Today is the very first charity, and even though it is a […]

Doug and I try to always have the little people tucked in so that we can relax and watch Monk together. Doug lets me tease him about his neurotic similarities to Monk and we enjoy our time together. Monk is a very funny show that carefully allows viewers to laugh without being cruel about a […]