Tag: kids
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Dad Day
To Shepherd: Yesterday before leaving for school, you asked if we could have a Dad Day. You meant, “Can me and you go do stuff?” You made me feel quite special at this request! We ended up going to Town Hardware to get a beamo (big flying frisbee) and going to Pisgah to throw it…
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“Dad, what’s your plan for the day?”
Getting Greta (4 years old) ready for school this morning: Greta: “Dad, what’s your plan for the day?” Me: “Ummm, I’ve gotta work.” Greta: “Ahhhh, not again!” At 4, and in three words, she has delivered a devastating critique to the routine and the man and all of it, daring me to act as if…
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Life is a series of…
decisions about whether you’ll clean up those 7 drops of milk the kid just spilled. Likewise, will I spend the 10 seconds it takes to not leave pants on the ground. Or get a haircut on time. Life is a series of decisions of whether I’ll do the thing that needs to be done right…
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Into My Arms
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 1997 We got up in two phases this morning. Shepherd first, going to school. Greta and Goldie next, going nowhere thankfully. As it all started up, changing a diaper (Goldie) and getting a banana (Greta), I think I just got lucky and caught a sense of its beauty. And…
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Good news out of Mississippi!
“And everybody knows about Mississippi goddam”– Nina Simone A massive surge in children’s literacy in my home state! Perhaps more noticeable than how exciting that is is how grim the numbers look in other states: 41% of public school 4th graders in California cannot read at a basic level. Not good. This good news doesn’t travel far and…
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After Hurricane Helene
We’re on the anniversary of Hurricane Helene. I posted this on an old blog a few days after and wanted to bring it here. What a year, man! Hard to be grateful for deeply painful and tragic things, but the second and third order effects of that day and the first weeks and two months…
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Hansel Mieth
Let me say, I don’t “understand” art in the way that enthusiasts “understand” art. I look at art and sometimes I like it. It is unsophisticated and I like it that way. I discovered Hansel Mieth’s photography yesterday and I pretty instantly liked it.
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Get a life
Here is one of those things that when read I nod at the end and go, “Yes. It’s like that.”
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Camping as a useful measuring stick of parenting
For the past two years, we’ve gone camping about five times. Five isn’t a big number but it’s certainly relative. Packing for five (there’s that number) people in the family, kids 5 to .83 years old, is a lot. Getting there and unpacking once we’re home are hard, but it’s incredibly worth it for core-memory…
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Shepherd: setting sail on his bike!
Shepherd’s first known solo bike ride! What day! O joy!