I am aware that this post is basically a mid-life crisis, though I hope that it’s mostly in concept a mid-life crisis, and not in math. Some people buy something extravagant that they don’t need. Some people go on a…

It’s one of those boring posts about me before I come up with another one to write about the children. Follow-through seems to have been one of the casualties of my having children, so it has been maybe more important…

I never really had much of a vision of myself as a parent before I became one. I had always assumed that I would just be a more tired version of myself — direct and open, patient, chatty, eager to…

I have several post drafts that I started and abandoned that were all about the notion of my life being on pause and that being the fault of my children. I have started and stopped that post three or four…

Over the course of the first three weeks of December, I stayed home to watch Maya while Janelle went back to the office. We swapped for a bit due some persnickety scheduling for her at work, and so that we…

There are now three children that live in our house. Well, really, there are two children and a little cry-larvae, but the net result is that there are three things to take care of in the house. The math changes…

It’s not really a secret anymore. We had a lady baby. Both our boys were a surprise. I had been initially ambivalent about finding out the gender or having it be a surprise, but Janelle and I were swayed by…

I’ve been absent from this blog for some time. There are reasons. Chief among these is my iPhone. The precious. A wonderful tool, but also a shackle for the easily distracted. As so much of the rest of my day…