You’ve got to be taught To hate and fear, You’ve got to be taught From year to year, It’s got to be drummed In your dear little ear You’ve got to be carefully taught. You’ve got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made, And people whose skin is a […]
Doug and I voted with only the youngest two to help us. Evan quietly waited in Doug’s arms for the 5 minute shuffle from table to table to table. Amy wanted to be held and put down two dozen times in the same 5 minutes. The line for the actual machines was about 10 minutes […]
Noah: “Mom, whitey-tighties are NOT cool!” Mom: “Get used to not being cool.”
GAC
Version A – When the rain storm has turned into a light shower, load everyone into the car and drive the short distance to the elementary school. Decide which child will go into the voting booth with which parent. Assign other children a corner of the room to sit quietly and read. Get lectured by […]
My mother stayed at the hospital all night with my grandmother. My grandmother is not speaking but does a lot of crying and screaming whenever strangers aka doctors and nurses approach her. My mother believes that when the pneumonia is better, my grandmother will become more lucid. She stays by her side out of love, […]
flyer More pictures from our evening at the UT Arboretum.
My father had the first of several eye surgeries on Friday. He is not a good patient. My mother is no longer dragging her left knee, but she is getting tired of PT three times a week and has skipped it several times already. The spirit has left my grandmother and she is now an […]
How many days can be like today? How many people go through this, silently, in the next car. When the world is normal, and you’re worried about getting to work on time, or realized you forgot a dental appointment, or just mad at your wife for something stupid that you don’t remember, how many people […]
Noah chose tonight’s music selection. Put it on repeat and play it until your ears bleed or you confess that you think the midterm election candidates were scraped from the bottom of the barrel, whichever comes first. Warning: Not the edited version [audio:http://domesticpsychology.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/the-charlie-daniels-band-the-devil-went-down-to-georgia.mp3]