There's some bad stuff going down with some friends of ours - a marriage in trouble, a baby involved. Across the street from us, our neighbors are taking in their daughter and granddaughter who are leaving the daddy, a court order involved. People don't make it together more … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2007
I Like My Sugar With Coffee and Cream
Don't worry. There are more Hometown Stories coming. Stay tuned for The One About My Friend's Daughter Biting Kyle on the Knee, and The One Where We Clean Out My Parents' Basement.There is a place where thirtysomething adults can go to act like kids even though they are dressed … [Read more...]
Hometown Stories: Relocation, Relocation, Relocation
Stewart and I have a five-year plan to move back to Connecticut and stay there. Well, it was a five-year plan 2 years ago. That means it should be a three-year plan now, but it's still sort of a within-the-decade plan. Ideally, it will be by the time Kyle starts kindergarten. So … [Read more...]
The No-Sleep Cry Solution
We interrupt the Hometown Stories series to bring you these current events.Since we arrived back in California, the children have been trying to kill me. Kyle is more the innocent bystander, or the complicit-by-nonaction sidekick. It's Brady who masterminds this operation, with … [Read more...]
Hometown Stories: Elocution, or, The End of Auntie Rola
As usual, when Kyle spends a bunch of time with my father, his language skills increase. He's been getting better at pronouncing words that he has had difficulty with in the past, like "galaxy."We were all driving from one place to another in the minivan my parents rented for us … [Read more...]