Regular Life

I’m Bill, but since the day I tried to fly, I’ve gone by Falcon. I’m not married and I have no kids. For a job, I take people back in time.
I started out an honest businessman, and that worked for a while. Then, I got greedy and started deceiving customers. That didn’t work long at [...]

You may have read that Saturday was lackluster. In contrast, Sunday morning was great.
I got up with Ben, as usual, and we ate our Quaker Oatmeal Squares cereal and played. After cereal, we took bananas out to the front porch, where we watched the empty streets go by. Ben now loves to eat bananas just [...]

The human body is both amazingly tough and frighteningly frail. Here are updates on two older items, and a new development. The post I originally intended for this date will have to wait.
Fixing Diagnoses
The older you get, the older everybody else gets, and the more likely it is that someone you barely know, know well, [...]

Ben’s second third birthday party went great for the guests, but the birthday boy himself seemed aloof, if not indifferent. The past week was rough for him, so while we were not all that suprised, it is very unusual for Ben not to get excited about unwrapping gifts. I suspected he was sick, and he [...]

We had a good visit back home last weekend, where we celebrated the start of Ben’s fourth year outside his mommy’s belly, and cooked up some of our own Independence Day festivities. I tried the soft drink and brand-name mints fountain trick again, partly because I thought it would be a good alternative to things [...]

Disclaimer: I’m not suggesting we throw more governmental restrictions at this problem. This is a much more personal diatribe. In addition, no, I have not seen Al Gore’s new documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, and I wanted to write this before I do.
I’ve heard it said that folks who don’t vote shouldn’t complain about the actions [...]

Last weekend, Ben plays the piano under the watchful and loving eye of GG.
Note: Please see new poll in the sidebar.
It’s been a year since I started this blog and, unlike others I have seen, this is not a big kiss-off saying that it was just an experiment. Instead, it is a look both in [...]

Ben digs a fig, with Papa watching over him.
Did you ever eat a fig? Not a Fig Newton, mind you, and not a dried fig, but a fresh fig you just picked off the tree? Our son Ben, now officially three years old, loves them.
My parents have three fig trees on the south side of [...]

“Mommy said I can’t sleep in your bed, because, I shouldn’t, and it’s not a great idea,” Ben said.
“Well, that’s right. You don’t need to sleep in our bed all the time.”

Several months ago, a young lady of Nicaraguan descent — we’ll call her Julia — filled in for our permanent administrative assistant, who was off having a baby. She had a thick build, but not blubbery, and she carried it well on her six-foot frame. Her hair was long and straight, a brown very near [...]