A tax-deductible family vacation seemed like a wonderful idea several months ago when I paid for a conference in Florida scheduled for late July/early August. But every time I’d been to the panhandle, it was March (college spring break) or May (high school senior trip or weddings). And I’d never stayed at a [...]
06.28a farewell to balls
I could write about the utter terror someone who passes out when given shots or blood tests faces when going for surgery on his nethers, but it’s easier to just provide my impressions from that timeframe as they were happening.
Accordingly, here are my tweets, in reverse chronological order:
Fireworks behind our house tonight. Either the [...]
06.2366
This is my parents in October 1972.
My Dad had been married fewer than two years. He’d spent a year in Vietnam, gotten the Distinguished Flying Cross, and made it home unscathed. He had a Corvette and raced motorcycles. He was cool.
Til I was born 3 years later and fucked it all up.
Happy birthday, Pa. Stay [...]
clip # 1: 3-year-old is in front of the camera. Poised. Not phased by her brother’s bellowing or her nose’s itching. She knows the words, even we don’t.
clip # 2: while I’m in the bathroom, the 3-year-old has taken my phone and begun filming. She refers to her brother as a “beast” [...]
04.30hope in the dark
April 19 was my little brother’s birthday. I haven’t talked to him in a couple months, but I tried to reach him every day during the week preceding his birthday to see if he wanted to watch the A-day game together or go out to dinner. He lives about an hour north of [...]
