Regular Life

Tatu, former Brazilian football player turned American soccer player and coach, owns this large home seemingly offered up by the leprechaun as the gold at the end of the rainbow. Our modest neighborhood is on the other side of the distant privacy fence; a close look reveals our roof two down on the right from [...]

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Saturday was a full day for our family. Full of the expected and the unexpected.
I got up with Ben, per usual on a weekend morning, and as we played for the next couple of hours, I was going stir crazy. I needed to do something [...]

Sounds like we’re headed to a life-size dinosaur replica exhibit today. That sentence doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. We had a surprise visit from a friend we haven’t seen in about five years (give or take).
No time to cover that right now, so here’s Dave’s version of the Ben photo I posted on Friday.

Nice [...]

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This image is the result of toying with a photo that I knew had potential when I shot it, but presented many challenges before I arrived at the above. Instead of deleting it when I saw that it wasn’t exactly what I intended, I [...]

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Binaural Tendencies
Almost a year ago, I mentioned binaural recordings in a post called “You Really Orta Hear This.” This time, feast your ears on a little slice of our lives. If you wear headphones or earbuds for this, you might swear we’re in [...]

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The mad motorcyclist continues, this time by daylight. He didn’t manage to wake Ben from his nap, but it wasn’t from lack of trying. Up and down the street he raced, a large man on a small bike, seemingly plucked from the circus.
During the ride of the [...]

(Note: There’s a new fiction afoot, a sequel of sorts to my well-received “Apartment Life.” More on that in a moment.)
You ever love something and hate it at the same time? That’s how I feel about this alphabet puzzle.
It’s great because Ben can learn to match shapes, name the letters, and do some freestyle design. [...]

Not long ago, an online friend mentioned that if he ever wanted to move to the United States, the scarcity of a certain food item would keep him from going through with it.
A lover of snack foods, I was determined to find out more. I found a website and discovered that Nestle recently made the [...]

I haven’t posted much lately because I’ve been getting more sleep. I wonder what percentage of bloggers could say the same?
A few highlights:
It Was a Real Bash
My wife’s family invades her uncle’s house for Christmas every year. Cars end up parked on both sides of the street, leaving little wiggle room for those trying to [...]

Ben enjoys yogurt.
We’re at my in-laws’ house, because they have a gas-powered source of heat.
Friday, all forecasts predicted icy doom and gloom for the Dallas metro area. Saturday, that started coming true for places in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Texas. There were downed power lines, tree limbs, and rooftops. Finally, at 6:15 that evening, we [...]