My eldest son, three-year-old Logan, attended a friend’s birthday party at Jumpity Jump on Saturday. As you might glean from the name, it’s one of those event hosting places that caters to kids’ parties with huge inflatables and so forth. The kids spend an hour bouncing off the walls, get plied with sugary cake and …
Project Management 101
I think parenting is the perfect training for aspiring project managers. Logan: Daddy, I have grass in my shoe. Me: Ok, take it off and shake it out. Logan: Ok! Long pause. Logan: Daddy, I don't have my shoe on. Me: Ugh, put your shoe back on, son. Logan: Ok! - Greg Windows Live Tags: …
It’s in the mail
Yesterday morning, Ginny asked me to drop a birthday card in our mailbox on my way out of the house. No problem. Except that I was running late (as usual), so I dropped it on the front seat of my car, promptly forgot about it, backed out of the garage, and zoomed up the street …
Farewell, my friend
I don’t quite know why it’s taken me so long to write this post, but it seems like tonight I just need some closure. Our family dog, Milo, went missing a month ago today, and I’ve finally accepted that he’s not coming home. I don’t want this to turn into a weird pet elegy or …
All I want for Christmas
Ginny, Logan, and I normally traverse the greater southeastern US each December, traveling to visit alternating parents on Christmas Eve, returning to Knoxville to enjoy Christmas morning at home, and then sometimes looping back to see the other set of parents later on Christmas afternoon. Needless to say, it’s quite a trek, and we usually …
Moya
When I met my wife, Ginny told me about her two Siamese cats, Moya and Leia, so I guess I knew what I was getting into right from the start. I'd lived with cats previously and wasn't in any particular hurry to resume the arrangement. I'm fond of animals in general, but like most guys, …
Home improvement
I was recently thinking about when my wife and I moved into our house two years ago. It was our first house, and before finding it, we’d been shopping for about 6 months. I think we’d looked at about a hundred different houses (at least it felt that way), before we finally decided to make …
Milo and me
Last night, I watched the film Marley & Me, which is based on the Marley memoirs by John Grogan. It recounts the tale of the “world’s worst dog” and the family whose lives he upended. I know what you’re thinking: didn’t they already do this one? In fact, it sounds a lot like the entire …
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