Last Tuesday I finished a draft of the memoir which now has been given the working-title “Mustache Dad.” I printed it off and it’s sitting in a stack beside me. Though it’s full of issues and thin parts and likely pages upon pages that will be cut, there is quite a feeling of accomplishment to [...] Continue Reading »
mustache dad
5and he awakes before i finish posting this
5I can’t sleep because I’m angry. I don’t know at who exactly. I’m trying real hard not to whine. Partially, I’m mad because Addair Kentucky hardly sleeps. Don’t give me advice about this, sleep advice makes me angry. I checked out a book on tape, Bringing Up Bebe, to listen to on our trek to [...] Continue Reading »
Driving from Kentucky toward home
2It was darn fun riding with the Grand Marshall of the Salem Christmas parade. Now we’re driving in the rain trying to get back to Knoxville in time for a Primitive Light dance rehearsal. Addair Kentucky wishes we could stop on Nashville and I do too. Speaking of the little guy, if you call him [...] Continue Reading »
is felini losing its hold? and is leisure blue going to sell this house?
0This is Nathan doing the hard ladder moves. I know I was instagraming a lot yesterday and someone asked if I ever get any work done. Well yes, Nathan is very good at what he does. Then I hid somewhere and caught a nap. But we finished yesterday on the exterior, and there is a [...] Continue Reading »
spartan merrymaking
4As you know, we’ve signed up to do a Spartan Race in August and so I’m on week 2 of my training. Some days I do the Spartan-recommended Work Out of the Day, but mostly I’m dancing. In classes yes, but also in the streets. I was inspired by that delightful youtube video featuring the [...] Continue Reading »
growing up (but not taking it too seriously)
1“Natural happiness is what we get when we get what we wanted, and synthetic happiness is what we make when we don’t get what we wanted. In our society, we have a strong belief that synthetic happiness is of an inferior kind.” (Dan Gilbert) A few weeks back, I listened to the TED talk this quote [...] Continue Reading »
a poem: it will be okay and things always work themselves out in the end
0i don’t use question marks in my journal the curve isn’t something my pencil likes to make i find other ways to doubt and to wonder when i imagine a future anthropologist discovering my pages i think of the way he will write it down in textbooks that americans in the early 2000s used [...] Continue Reading »
Chuck Norris roofing jokes
5Today we made up Chuck Norris roofing jokes. “Chuck Norris chews a bar of copper and spit-drives galvanized nails.” “Chuck Norris heaves bundles of shingles on the roof from the pallet.” “Chuck Norris tears off an old roof by pounding on it with his fists. He roundhouse kicks the bouncing shingles into the dumpster.” “Chuck Norris can [...] Continue Reading »
“why you gotta be so mean” -taylor swift (and before you scoff, read on)
16A couple of weekends ago I went to a Natural Parenting Expo. The good things about this were: I met up with some delightful friends No one minded when I let Addair Kentucky nurse in public I bought two new diaper covers (the next size up!) without having to drive to the store I got [...] Continue Reading »
it’s time for ‘best google search engine terms’
8i always feel like a traveler, going somewhere, toward some destination. (is that a quote? I almost want to google it) grace tri flex (this is a new synthetic roofing underlayment. spider man paper) babies with fiestaware hipsters and the economy (really ‘anything + hipster’ is how people find us) hipster fatherhood dragline winter [...] Continue Reading »