Regular Life

(Note: This is the fifth in a series of posts about the first meeting of three online friends.)

At least one of you has looked at kids in those crawl tubes at fast-food restaurants and thought, “I wish they had that for adults.” On my recent trip to St. Louis, a unique place granted that [...]

(Note: This is the fourth in a series of posts about the first meeting of three online friends.)
At age 37, I finally found a beer I like. More on that later.
The appetizing aroma of Moonshot’s Irish stew in the Crockpot welcomed us back from the Adrenaline Zone. Conversation wandered from our blogs to [...]

Note: This is the third in a series of posts about the first meeting between three online friends.
At Moksha Gren’s home — affectionately dubbed “the Grenstead,” we marveled at how we all looked in three dimensions. I was a bit surprised that we stood so close to the same height. Though I had [...]

(Note: Yesterday’s post was my 700th published. About 60 days short of three years doing this, I figure that’s one post every 1.4 days.)
Before the thievery on Saturday, there was a windfall of epic proportions.
Sometimes, you just get lucky.
You’ll recall that we were at a place featuring games that spit out tickets rewarding [...]

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Curses!
I sit at our home PC typing a blog post or some such nonsense. On one of her nights to put Benjamin to bed, Shannon walks into the guest bathroom to assess his teeth brushing progress. I hear them talking to each other, but can’t [...]

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Easter post forthcoming.

This was just nuts. Not until the end of our third winter in Texas did we see snow like this. About two inches piled up Monday night/Tuesday morning, and then quickly thawed in the 60-degree heat. Benjamin and I rode bicycles together for about an hour Tuesday afternoon without jackets.
Then about four [...]

(Note: All of you reading “Bernie,” please go on over to my story blog for Part Two.)
For something a little less serious than my current work of fiction, I present today the next chapter in the cups’ post-drain life. It wasn’t the second installment I had envisioned, but a viewing will make it clear [...]

Saturday, we told Benjamin it was his day to spend his $50 Christmas money from his grandparents (nod to commenter “Pops”). He had been pretending to play store at school and at home, so he had at least an inkling of how money worked.
He could go to any store he wanted, and after we [...]

“R used to be my sister when we were little babies. Then I grew up to be a big boy and she didn’t grow, so we sold her to O’s family.”
– Benjamin, age 4, to his Grammy, age something greater than 4
Our son likes to make up his own narratives while playing. Sometimes [...]