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There are some things a person just shouldn't watch. One of them is the entire contents of one's life being lifted, tossed, and well stirred. Today is packing day at our house. That means that three very nice professional complete … Continue reading →

 For all his brilliance and accomplishments, Elias is at a very dangerous age: post-mobility, pre-sense. He seems determined to harm himself. He seems magnetically pulled to the item in the room that poses the greatest bodily threat to him. It's … Continue reading →

 One unsung benefit of urban living is that tornadoes generally hop over a city due to the bubble of heat created by all those cars, buildings, and asphalt. Not so out here in the sticks. In Cleveland in nine years … Continue reading →

Our dream of wooded acreage and convenient shopping was slightly marred this week by a gas leak that nearly killed us all in a giant blue whumph. The straight-from-cental-casting hillbilly who came to fix it looked at the situation and … Continue reading →

I posted yesterday but you wouldn't know that because for some reason the notification didn't go. I got suspicious when I toted up three reads in the last 24 hours. That says to me that there was a technical glitch … Continue reading →

This is the point where we ask ourselves: why must we have ice skates AND a sun hat? This is the point where we start to think: all possessions are evil. Let's divest ourselves of everything and live a simpler … Continue reading →

A mother worries. I got a call from the doctor the other day indicating that the bad/scary/threatening testing of my sweet little dumpling's urinary system will be next Wednesday. Since he had a bladder infection, which is not all that … Continue reading →

This has been one of those weeks so rich in material I don't know where to start. Here are some of the headlines: 1) Baby stricken with bladder infection; runs fever of 104; hid painful urination from devoted mom 2) … Continue reading →

   Thursday afternoon Isaac dropped a shovel, blade down, on his toe. I suppose there's never a good time to do something like that, but the afternoon before a predawn flight to New York, now that would be a bad … Continue reading →

Boyz in the hood woods… After lo these nearly nine years of inner city living, we are moving to what can almost be called the country. Lady luck smiled upon us a few weeks ago when someone mentioned to Ben … Continue reading →