by Mir | Feb 6, 2008 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Offspring: ecstasy and agony
So it turns out that when you spend your day catering to a very sick and pitiful child and also trying to work, by the end of the day you feel as though you’ve been up for a week. And then you review the day to consider what you could possibly write about, and...
by Mir | Feb 5, 2008 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Offspring: ecstasy and agony
I had so many exciting things to tell you about today, like that the Great Scrabble Wars are alive and well (in case you were wondering, HOMEY is acceptable, but HOMEYLIT as the genre that results from rappers writing books is—for some reason—not) and that...
by Mir | Feb 4, 2008 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
I refuse to believe that my days of trash-talking the Giants and making fun of my father for being a Giants fan are to blame for the Patriots having screwed up royally last night. Hey, I’m not the one who let all those guys hit Tom Brady. Though I’d sort...
by Mir | Feb 2, 2008 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Today we went on a wild, day-long adventure, which included going panning for gold. As we stood clustered around a trough, each swishing around our pans, Monkey jabbered a mile a minute and Chickadee complained a couple of times that the water was too cold, but in the...
by Mir | Feb 1, 2008 | What do I do all day?
My father and stepmom go on a lot of really exciting vacations, you know. They’ve been to Africa on safari. Alaska. The Great Wall of China. The Mayan ruins. All sorts of places I may never get to go, but always each trip more exotic than the last. (They tell me...