Half Staff

Half Staff

It’s been almost a year since I closed the book on my daily blog about parenting and working through a scary, deadly pandemic. My blog might have stopped, but of course COVID didn’t. Like most comic book movie properties, it just kept getting rebooted,...
Back To School Eve

Back To School Eve

Hello there. It has been a while since I’ve put anything in this space. But while I did put a close to the daily run of this blog, I always figured there might be moments where I felt like saying a few [thousand] words about one thing or another.It’s been...
Day 450: All Good Things

Day 450: All Good Things

Obviously, I’ve written a lot in this space over the past 450 days. Just doing a little quick math, based on a rough guestimate that my average post is around 750 words, I’m thinking I’ve written in the neighborhood of 440,000 words about my...

Day 449: Back in the World

Tuesday was the big day. My first foray back into business travel. And, no less, travel to the first major convention to be held in the United States since March of 2020: World of Concrete.Here I will note that World of Concrete, with its rather grandiose and also...
Day 448: Ready or Not

Day 448: Ready or Not

It was back to it on Monday for me, Erin and Henry. Amelia, of course, is soaking in the total freedom of being on summer break from school and having nothing formal to do. That said, she does love playing along with Henry and his ABA therapist, and is always really...
Day 447: Typewriters in a Fake River

Day 447: Typewriters in a Fake River

In the last few of my daily blogs, I find myself reflecting a lot about the time that was and the time that is. And I keep coming back to the fact that the time that IS right now is pretty weird.It’s weird for the fact that it is starting to feel more...