Trees, Clouds, Sky Follow the sign... The wilds just off the path Backyard Established 1898 (the house, not the flowers) Coast Ocean’s Refuse Effect, Sun and Wind Nature wins. All these images from a week ago, on 30 hour escape with my dear love, Susan, to reconnect as a couple (rather than the 24/7 parenting …
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Simple Suggestions
Boiling life down into bite-size bits and basic ideas we can learn and hold on to day-in, day-out? Might just be a superpower secret to living a good and happy life. These are concepts we should not only live by everyday, but pass along to those around us, especially our children, if we have them. …
Gettaway
Lucky for the little things. Lucky to be married to a great human, smart and patient and beautiful and thoughtful. Eleven years married, a mark we just passed. And so we’ve got a little gettaway planned. Nothing fancy, but it happens to be my favorite format: short escape to a place not far away, but …
What We Do, Redeux
Just a couple days ago, I had a post entitled "What We Do." Well, here a slightly different take — I'm revisiting that title again. Busy weekend finished up with Sunday afternoon grocery run, and then between the wife and me, putting three new dishes together for dinner. We worked well together in our little …
What We Do
What do we do when we’re married? What do we do when we’re parents? What do we do after a long day, a long week? We take care of business, that’s what we do. We go to the practice, we wash the dishes, we’re sociable, even if maybe we’re not feeling it. Who knows, it …
7
Our son just turned seven years old, had me thinking about 7 times 77 times 777 things around him, around me, around everything under heaven. So grateful I am he’s in our lives, so grateful to have this life with him, her, them. Then I ponder my path, crooked and bumpy and blessed, messed up …
A Dad’s List, #6 : A Daughter and The Pumpkin Patch
Really this post is more, “a dad’s list in pictures.” I was super lucky a couple weeks back: I took the day off to go with my younger daughter and her class to the pumpkin patch. It was the best of both worlds. I got to be with my daughter, but also see her in …
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Road Trip!
Zero Dark Thirty, we rolled out. Regardless the hour, the excitement and anticipation were palpable. Over a great highway, southbound. And we chatted and the kids dozed and woke again. After several hours we arrived. And immediately we set to work, “having fun.” We learned pretty quick from the kids’ reactions to various proposed rides, …
Good Peeps
There are many people we meet throughout our life. Some we’ll be friendly with. A few will become good friends. Life-long even, if we’re lucky. And there are those folks we see seldom, they live too far away, or are living busy lives like many (all?) of us are. Consumed by the day-to-day, week-to-week responsibilities …
Dadlife, Dark Side
I talk a lot about the positive. I promote the upside of things, look for the silver lining even in bad situations. That's the fundamental credo of this blog: be positive, find positive, share positive. But sometimes the dark side creeps in. Sometimes the dark side is strong. Sometimes it's been a long day, or …
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