As I spread peanut but­ter on toast with the equiv­i­lant of a filet knife I think to myself what an inef­fec­tive tool it is for the job.  But I keep using it tak­ing twice the time as I would with another tool, and mar­veling at how it is a fan­tas­tic way to con­tol peanut butter […]

The other night I had a dream.  Sher­man and Eli­jah and I were walk­ing home on the path we always take from the church.  It was a nice day, a calm walk.  As we passed the vines cov­er­ing the chain link fence Sher­man stopped and picked a bunch of red grapes.  As he handed them […]

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I had every inten­tion of writ­ing in blogs tonight.
Now it’s 8:53 and my yawns are mak­ing my eyes water and the pages blur…
I think it would be best to leave it alone for tonight if for no other rea­son than to avoid embar­ras­ing spelling errors or accid­netly post on the wrong blog…
And I have a paper cut…
And I […]

Is it wrong that I am super excited about Sher­man and I hav­ing to go to Ijahs’s bap­tism ori­en­ta­tion tonight cause its the clos­est thing to a date I’ve seen in awhile?
Yay for dates!

Today, a year after I had the kiddo I look about like what I did when I left the hos­pi­tal.  This is damn near a daily source of drama for me.  Today, a year after the kiddo, I also came to a con­clu­sion.
I’m not in my twen­ties any­more.  I’m not 150 pounds any­more.  One of […]

I’m pretty sure that the “first” birth­day cel­e­bra­tion is really just as much for par­ents as it is for kids.  He gets an out­fit and atten­tion and a pretty righ­t­ious mon­key cake, we get a pat on the back for keep­ing him alive and well for a year.
And let me tell you, that first year is […]

I remem­ber the 4^th of July with Mark.  He was always very proud to be the guy with the most ash in his yard on the 5^th.  I think the most fun times we had were when “Billy” lived across the street and he and Mark would have the equiv­i­lant to a fire­works piss­ing contest…it […]

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