Highlights from Ps & Q
Day 187: Beautiful Boy, Part 2
This piece originally appeared in: Ps and Q: Parenting, Productivity and Quarantine, September 21, 2020A few days ago, I told the story of how, in the midst of pandemic, homeschooling and quarantine, we got the additional challenge of learning we are the parents of a...
Day 183: Beautiful Boy, Part 1
This piece originally appeared in: Ps and Q: Parenting, Productivity and Quarantine, September 16, 2020I have been writing this blog for a LONG time. As I’ve said many times along the way, I’m doing it for a few reasons. One reason is that I do want to capture a...
More Ps & Q Writing
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, recast and...
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 quite a...
Day 187: Beautiful Boy, Part 2
This piece originally appeared in: Ps and Q: Parenting, Productivity and Quarantine, September 21, 2020A few days ago, I told the story of how, in the midst of pandemic, homeschooling and quarantine, we got the additional challenge of learning we are the parents of a...
Day 183: Beautiful Boy, Part 1
This piece originally appeared in: Ps and Q: Parenting, Productivity and Quarantine, September 16, 2020I have been writing this blog for a LONG time. As I’ve said many times along the way, I’m doing it for a few reasons. One reason is that I do want to capture a...
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
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
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 "normal," but...
Day 446: Great Wall
Saturday was a pretty low key day, and another one not exactly flowing with blogginess, so this will be a short one.In the morning, I went to the basement to take a run on the treadmill, and this time both kids came down to play. As I noted yesterday, Amelia found a...
Day 445: Dinner Guest!
Friday was the start a pretty busy weekend. Erin had to take Henry to an assessment, Amelia and I took Asta to the vet, and then there was phone calls, work and all the usual weekday stuff. I also snuck in a run on the treadmill in our basement. When I finished, I...
