In one week I’ve had two ridiculous injuries. First came the pulled groin muscle which I got from trying to climb over a baby gate while holding a glass of wine in each hand. Then I managed to pull a…
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Posted in Uncategorized, Writing Tagged with: adventure, bay, border to border, injuries, land rover, san diego, water, writing
Anti-Hipster Screed
In twenty years we’ll look back at Hipster fashion and attitude and regard it with the same pity and disgust with which we view the Kountry Kitchen Old West nostalgia of the 1970s, which left us with wagon wheel coffee…
Big Boy Shoes
There’s something about wearing new shoes that makes you feel smarter, stand taller, salute the world with a confident smile. Also if you’re learning to walk, hard-soled shoes give you a rigid platform to begin tottering around like the Star…
Thursday Grab Bag
Just like Taco Tuesday or Pizza Friday, this blog needs a themed day. And since I’m UncleF#*k-Up I get to declare a day and then promptly ignore or forget about it. Today’s grab bag starts with things going wrong in…
Posted in Parenting, Uncategorized Tagged with: CH, eating, food, hair, mess, number two, parenting, toddlers
Supposed to be Sleeping
There’s an hour of night when everything is asleep, even the trees and waves and soil. Even the mockingbirds, and they’re the frat boys of the avian world, getting territorial and screaming at all hours of day, then ratcheting it…
Queries
Oh lawdy, queries. The bane of every writer and the joy of the agent. A query is a boiled-down description of your book you write to sell it to an agent or publisher. Think of the 100-200 word blurb on…
How to Meander
“Babbo, what’s meander mean?” asked CH about a word we’d just read together. “Meander is to wander without a goal, just to go here and there and enjoy yourself,” I replied. Some days are the best because they are unplanned…
Chai: Solved
The great chai mystery has been cracked. My previous attempts at making strong chai in the office, here and here, were foiled by physics (shakes fist at universe) and operator error (shakes fist at self). As is so often the…
Colors of All Kinds
I’m really excited about all this DOMA and gay marriage media coverage because it gets Americans talking about something other than the Kardashians. I want to focus on one angle of the gay marriage debate: saying that a Supreme Court…
Create Something From Anything
The best way to test for creativity is to give people props and free time. There are those people who need tasks, ordered jobs that utilize parts and have a start and endpoint. Then there are those who, when they…
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