Maddie the Toddler turned 3 last weekend, so we decided to throw a “Three-esta” and invite all our neighbors with children (and a few without) for fun with quesadillas, a pinata, Fanta, and tequila. I even told everyone they could park in the front yard and wear wife-beater tank tops. […]
Check this shit out. Church Punk Mom said she’d send some cookies on Twitter. I figured she said that shit to everybody. I asked Pretty Bride a couple times if I’d received any mail from Iowa. The answer was always “no.” Then, a few days later, I got mail from […]
Apparently, if you have a blog and sometimes metion your having little creatures in your house that resulted from a druken few minutes in your closet during a party at your house, then you’re supposed to write a post about fatherhood on Father’s Day. At least, that’s what the good […]
Over Memorial Day weekend, we drove to Great Smoky Mountains National Park for some hiking and bonding. On the way, we saw this place somewhere in North Carolina: I decided this a great place to pull over, so, without warning anyone else in the car (to include 3 sleeping children, […]
The first time I tried to meet a friend I made through blogging was in 2007 when I was writing from Iraq and befriended a doctor who was writing from the same location, shortly after he gave me a “shout out” following his getting a New York Times link to […]
