I’ve mostly quit opening the door to anyone selling anything except neighborhood children. (Nice misplaced modifier. Hey Bo, you mean that you’ll only open the door to people selling neighborhood children? Heh.) That closed-door policy is a result of a final-straw encounter with the magazine gypsies I wrote about before. If you ring my doorbell [...]
Jan 012012
January 1, new beginning, blah, blah, blah. I’m not feeling very profound today. Or maybe I am. Depends on your perspective, I guess. The mood I am not in is one in which I self-flagellate for three or four paragraphs on all of the heinous mistakes I made in 2011, then make grandiose pronouncements of [...]
We are members of the Huntsville Museum of Art, though I visit far too infrequently. Sometime before Christmas, Lea said something to me about a traveling exhibit there. Now she probably explained the whole thing to me, but what I carried forward from it was “stained glass.” So she said something about wanting to go [...]
Dec 262011
The boys had a good Christmas morning, I believe, though this is almost certainly Aaron’s last year to believe in Santa Claus. Nathan, calling on subtlety and understatement I didn’t realize he yet had, did a good job preserving it for Aaron without overselling it. Lea and I got a new couch for Christmas, and [...]
Dec 252011
For to us a child is born; to us a son is given. And the government shall be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. – Isaiah 9:6 Merry Christmas to you and your family.
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