When I opened Nicholas's backpack last night, I found a plain manila envelope with a handwritten note that said simply ( Read more... )

"It was a beautiful day ( Read more... )

As the credits scroll, a man is rushing out of his office, being stopped by everyone he passes to solve some problem that seems like the end of the world is approaching, each person calmed with the same sort of techno-babble that they had used to describe the problem ( Read more... )

In about an hour Nicholas will start his very first T-ball practice. He is completely excited and totally prepared. I can hardly wait to see him out there with the rest of his, very first, team. I really hope his coach has a clue... Hold on ( Read more... )

Today is D-day. Divorce day, that is. As of approximately 1 hour ago, am legally divorced. I have not been writing recently because there were simply too many things that I would/could have written about that would have been in appropriate to have in the public domain, as I'm sure any of you that have ever been through any legal process can ( Read more... )

So, around 2AM this morning, Linda (my wonderifical new partner who deserves a flurry of posts dedicated to her, but I've been much too busy spending time with she and the rest of my nearly Brady Bunch family to write about it) wakes me up and says ( Read more... )

[this morning's call started with: "so i'm breaking a 24-hour curfew to sit in the car under this cell tower, which is the only place i can get any cell reception at all, and i don't expect to have power for fucking ever, so who knows when you'll be hearing from me with any regularity again, but i'm fine, the boys are fine, and shannen's ( Read more... )

Well, here I am at work, still without electricity and not in Chicago where I was supposed to be. Many stories left to be told, some that have been alluded to, others that have not, and I will get to them all... unfortunately, probably not today ( Read more... )

[just in case anybody's worrying (not like he ever talks this much, so i don't know why you would be), the ranagar left a phone message at my house sometime mid-day to tell me he was "still powerless, had no phone," & was at the mall b/c that was the only place he could get cell reception, about to pick a food-court table from which to make some business- ( Read more... )