Month: August 2020

Captain’s Log: quarantine month five, day four. I appear to have lapsed into a fugue state sometime in the past several weeks and lost the capacity for rational thought. This is the only explanation I can think of for why a trampoline was delivered to our house today. It came with a sprinkler attachment. Pray… Continue reading Quarantine Trampolines and Other Lapses in Judgement

Over the past five months, I have spent more time with my kids than usual. This has not entirely been by choice. As we found ourselves unexpectedly schooling from home, working from home, and generally being stuck at home, our rhythms and routines naturally shifted. We stayed up later, watched movies after dinner, occasionally watched… Continue reading The Best 30 Minutes of the Day

Just over a year ago we added a dog to our family. Buddy Baudelaire is a two-year-old boxer/lab mix. Maybe. No part of that is certain because he’s a shelter rescue. Whatever his age and genealogy, he’s black and white, very energetic, extremely loving, and stronger than a fully-grown brontosaurus. As we celebrated Buddy’s “gotcha… Continue reading Reflections on the Year of the Dog

My kids and I took a mini-vacation last week. Several days before our departure for a small cabin rental in Tennessee, it occurred to me that this would be our first overnight adventure with just the four of us. In the four years since the divorce, my revised nuclear family had never taken a solo… Continue reading We’re Still Just Us – Even On Vacation