Regular Life

(continue reading “Falcon” on my other blog)

Figure 1 - Ben’s Arkansas Razorback Chair
Ben often makes up conversations between his toys, and sometimes he talks directly to them. Even something as simple as a chair (detail, Figure 1) purchased at a craft fair is not immune. My wife wrote down this one.
“Do you hear me, Razorback [...]

(If you’re reading, “Falcon,” then click here for Part Eight)
I’ve heard it said that how-to’s are good subject matter for blogs. Welcome to my first.

Here we have two pictures of our boy, Benjamin. The difference between them? It’s not different cameras, different lenses, or different settings. It isn’t some in-camera red-eye correction feature.
It’s all about [...]

You ever make up weird voices when you’re bored? I don’t mean talking to yourself. That’s a whole different thing. I just mean, for fun, you play out stories with different characters with various accents. Male, female. You just let it all go and become a one-person show?
No? I was afraid you were going to [...]

(Please see new poll relevant to this post.)
(Continue reading “Falcon”

(keep following “Falcon” over on my story blog)
Ben asks for an apple. I gladly give him one after he says, “Please.” I start making myself a sandwich, which I plan to grill on the griddle I used to make pancakes earlier in the day. For some reason, every time I use that thing, it sits [...]

I took this picture about 18 years ago, on top of a mountain about one mile outside my hometown’s city limits (as much as you can apply that term to a town of 5,000 people that’s the largest within a 30-mile radius and the biggest in the whole county).
I figured I would let readers form [...]

(click here for more of my sci-fi short “Falcon,” which my wife digs and so might you. I made a TOC page for easy reading start to most recent.)
Update: The audio clip links are fixed now.
The beauty of electronic publishing over traditional methods is that it’s immediate and it’s multimedia. It’s immedia. Nevermind.
What I’m trying [...]

(Falcon Part Four is available at my story blog)
The mud wars took place in the larger of the two ponds. A sleepover including a few other guys led us to the smaller one, and one of the most memorable Chris’ farm days.
Everybody brought his bicycle. At first, we just rode around in the fields, on [...]

(the third installment of “Falcon” is all set for you over here)
I try not to be that guy who effuses sickening amounts of kid-related thoughts. Sometimes, though, they barrage relentlessly and I can’t contain them. I also just had to share about our latest date night, which was one part perfect, one part average, and [...]

(I posted the second part of “Falcon” on my story blog, and it will finish over there as I write it. Thanks to those who have commented on it so far. See part one here.)
With all these health issues popping up, I started a new poll. See it in the sidebar.
The boy still is having [...]