Life – Page 7 of 15
Blog posts about life, art, and everything.
Hero to mail carriers everywhere, no doubt
April 15, 2015 | Miscellany
In the five years we’ve been here Canada Post has never inspected our mail box, because if they had, we would’ve got this notice before now.
New sump pump day!
April 9, 2015 | Miscellany
New sump pump day isn’t celebrated far and wide like those fancy holidays, it’s a local holiday, very local, like only-in-my-house local.
Who brought the dog?
March 23, 2015 | Miscellany
The girls have been watching Ghostbusters in 1/2 hour chunks before bedtime for the past few nights and now Spare thinks she’s Louis Tully and that’s okay.
Parenting on snow days
February 2, 2015 | Miscellany
It’s snowing outside, and the buses are cancelled, and you know what that means – a young couple asks for my experience with kids on snow days.
Douglas Adams on perspective
December 24, 2014 | Miscellany
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and[…]
Kurt Vonnegut on profanity
December 11, 2014 | Miscellany
…profanity and obscenity entitle people who don’t want unpleasant information to close their eyes and ears to you.
General rule
November 19, 2014 | Miscellany
I have this general rule that the thing a company became famous for is the only thing you should buy from them. Nowhere is this more true than kids products.
The world is a lie
November 12, 2014 | Miscellany
Apparently Curious George isn’t a monkey at all, but a chimp. And Hello Kitty isn’t a cat. I need to lie down.
Don Draper and George Carlin on language
October 28, 2014 | Miscellany
I’m not sure what George Carlin would have have thought of Don Draper, but in this instance I think they might be on the same page.
Joseph Heller on paranoia
October 22, 2014 | Miscellany
Watch out behind you it’s Joseph Heller! Haha, just kidding, he’s not behind you, but he did write this great line about paranoia in Catch-22.