Close call.

So if you see a yellow chicken mascot with a horrendously creepy mask and scraggly fringe hanging from its costume jumping up and down emphatically in front of Picnics restaurant on Merrimon Avenue, DON’T BE ALARMED! DON’T BE DISTRACTED! DON’T CRASH YOUR CAR OUT OF FEAR! Instead: appreciate the battle it has fought to be there.
I am just [...]

When good things go bad

I’d say I have a good relationship with my dog, Lucy (evidence: that classically adorable face above perched upon that classically ugly fake-Ugg ugg boot which is mine) She really is the best dog in the world, and I’m not just saying that, because random people come up to us on the beach and beg and [...]

Things I Cannot Wait to Teach My Children #1

I have discovered, deep in the Book of Virtues, the solution to getting kids to behave well. Forget all techniques of bribing, coaxing, and discipline. Instead, read this to them:
John was a bad boy, and beat a poor cat;
Tom put a stone in a blind man’s hat;
James was the boy who neglected his prayers;
They’ve all [...]

“You mean winter, as in Eskimos and igloos and penguins and ICE?”

 Yes, winter’s finally decided to come to us, too. Just when the daffys were poking up.
This weekend James went up to Michigan to attend a Community Development conference. I think his experience was overall positive. Yet the email he sent last night around 10:45 was as such:
Cold. Snow. -20. Ice on roads. We are stuck [...]