We were being goofy. It was a rare night when there was not a single dinner-time crisis unfolding. We took away Gabriel’s high chair and replaced it with a real chair which I think had something to do with how civil and generally pleasant dinner was that night. Gabriel has never liked being confined. Can’t […]

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Okay so my idea was to build a sifter out of the heavy mesh wire left over from my compost bin project. That was easy enough, a two-foot-by-two-foot frame with the wire stretched over it. The plan was to place this frame over the wheelbarrow and then shovel my recently-excavated dirt onto it. Then I’d […]

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So I’m guessing you already know that Elvis died on this day, but did you know that Babe Ruth and Bela Lugosi both died on this day, too? Did you know that today is Madonna’s birthday? Did you know that it is also Charles Bukowski’s birthday today? Did you know that this is the day […]

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I am the Earthmover. I have moved the earth. The earth that once delivered buckets of water from the hill above down to my house below has been pushed back upon itself and away from my house. Eight feet out in some places and ten in others, where the earth once sloped down toward my […]

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Okay, if I can save even one person from making the same mistake I made, then this will have been worth it: Secret Window with Johnny Depp is awful. You know, I consider myself pretty forgiving when it comes to movies. Even if there’s something remotely interesting in the action, or if one of the […]

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So okay I’ve been like uber-obsessive about the weather lately. This is the time of year when my potential for taking an emotional nose-dive soars. If there’s one thing that could make me curl up and cry like a baby its this stupid Texas heat. I don’t know how so many people put up with […]

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I’ve never been able to completely articulate what it is that bothers me so much about having to look at George Bush. Norman Mailer has hit it perfectly:
Bush has one of the emptiest faces in America. He looks to have no more depth than spit on a rock. It could be that the most incisive […]

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Ari told me the funniest story: Last night after she’d changed the baby into his jammies, Ari began prepping his room for bedtime, closing blinds, getting wormie (his bedtime buddy, a rainbow colored worm), etc. All the time she was doing this, Gabriel was standing in the middle of the room shouting, “Want my pants […]

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I’ve always been acutely aware of people on sidewalks along busy roads. At some point in my life I concocted this image of a pedestrian tripping over a crack in the sidewalk and falling out into the road and getting run over. And so whenever I see people on the sidewalk, I tend to watch […]

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