This puzzle is on the dining room table at Lisa's house. I snapped a photo of it on Friday. It's so cruel that she didn't even get to finish her effing puzzle. After spending a few days calling people and going through Lisa's records, I came down with a nasty viral infection … [Read more...]
Texts From Heaven
Look at this woman. This is a picture of Lisa taken last year at her first triathlon. She kicked cancer in the ass and then did a triathlon to say "Suck it, cancer!" And then she did it AGAIN. And she was doing great. She was training for her first half-marathon and … [Read more...]
You Are the Beast
Kyle has a pen pal. Her name is Zoe. She was born one month after Kyle, after her mother and I had nearly identical pregnancies, after leading nearly parallel lives - her on the east coast, I on the west. Zoe and her family now live in the Bay Area, and we get to see them … [Read more...]
Dear Santa: LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean
We've been to a lot of Halloween parties the last few weeks. The first one was thrown by Disney Interactive on the lot at Disney in Burbank. My kids were in heaven - there were video games to play all around the room, and lots of sugary cookies to eat. They basically stationed … [Read more...]
Sad Pumpkin
When he became a father, Stewart's inner artist emerged. He drew elaborate space-scapes in chalk on the patio for Kyle, created beautiful vistas with crayon and paper, and, every Halloween, carved the most intricately scary or goofy jack-o-lanterns out of the most ordinary … [Read more...]