The girls have been all over me like puppies the last few days, and because of it I've been reluctant to tell them I'm going away again for 2 weeks. Neither of them is getting enough sleep, some 3 weeks into the merging of the daughters into one room, because G requests songs all night and P obliges, performs. It's too adorable to stop. At some ( Read more... )

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The statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens has a group of little mice in a nook at the rear. People leave small folded notes for Peter, and Peter responds on the back in a thick pencil with a playful hand.


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I've beaten my 7am wake-up call by at least 2 hours. It makes sense, I suppose- last weekend I was in Virginia seeing a godson off to boot camp, and in Virginia right now it's nearly lunch time. When the sun comes up over Kawaihae Harbor in a few hours it will do so with the intensity of the summer sun on the desert side of a Pacific island, so I ( Read more... )

It's 11am on a Saturday, the first really summer-feeling Saturday since the winter rains. The sun is getting high and the air is easily in the 80s already. J got home from work at 3am and Christian got back from the bars sometime later, so I'm sitting alone on the back porch in my Adirondack chair, feet up on the fire pit I converted from wood to ( Read more... )

My wife (wow, that's going to take some getting used to saying) told me something new this afternoon as we walked back along Rua da Alfandega from tango lessons at the 'Castelo' in Lisbon and a very casual meal with live local (enthusiastic if not professional)'fado' music outdoors at a street cafe. She said "Early on, at the place at Bayview, I ( Read more... )

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The spring rains subside, the sun inches closer and the days get longer- and a young man's thoughts turn to the same thing every year: Holy crap I got fat and pasty over the winter. I'm actually a bit lighter than usual, but so, so pale ( Read more... )

This is inspired by geniealisa's Living Out Loud project. I've been meaning to write a bit more, and I really enjoy reading the works her prompts inspire.

Have you ever looked back and realized how close you came to not getting where you are now?In a proper world, where I listened to the wisdom of my elders and paid less attention to the pressure of my ( Read more... )

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