[The following is a ditty I submitted to the Deseret News. They didn't want it.] In December 1991 my younger brother Kevin started dropping weight. Mom thought it was the paper route—all that pedaling through the slush, up the steep hills, with awkward sacks slung over the handlebars, his snowcap all sweaty. But when he [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Joy (and diabetes) to the world
Posted in Uncategorized on December 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Taking Sammy “back to the pet store”
Posted in Uncategorized on December 15, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Lydia is an absent-minded little girl. A while back I compared her to Tom Bombadil, the only creature in all Middle Earth who is not tempted by the Ring of Power, and the only one, according to Tolkien, absent-minded enough to lose it if entrusted with it. When Lydia puts something down, it’s as good [...]
The cult of poo
Posted in Uncategorized on December 8, 2009 | 10 Comments »
[Many thanks to all those who tune in to this blog from time to time, and many much more thanks to those who take time to write comments. Sorry I don't respond to them like I should. Nevertheless I enjoy hearing about the associations you have when you read this stuff. And now a warning: [...]
Conversations about nothing
Posted in Uncategorized on December 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
At dinner every night I interrogate my children about their day. Every night they know what’s coming, and yet when it’s time for them to answer, I get blank stares–far-off looks, spaghetti noodles hanging from their mouths, their eyes twitching with the herculean effort to recall what they had done three hours earlier. I have [...]
