Stop One: a place I’ve known for many years, a place I’ve lived, worked, loved, and finally left. A place of green lawns, piles of chiseled marble, navy blue suits, and papers. A city where the world comes to negotiate. A…
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Capital City
Posted in Events, Parenting Tagged with: air and space, carousel, CH, DC, hometown, identity, museums, smithsonian, washington
Out and About
It’s been a long overdue vacation for the family. First clue: we took a five-hour plane ride, about an hour too long for The Boy. Child Harbat was fine, even pulling a piece of luggage larger than her. She was…
Posted in Events, Parenting Tagged with: airplanes, CH, flying, flying with toddlers, number two, plane
The Best Part of Comic-Con
When you’re an adult don’t ever think that your idea of fun correlates with your child’s. For the past few years my wife and daughter have gone to Comic-Con and I’ve made periodic forays. This year Number Two was old…
Posted in Events, Parenting Tagged with: children, comic-con, convention, monster high, my little pony, parenting, stroller, toddler, trolley
Laconta-Con!
Child Harbat and I have a running joke about Comic-Con, the gigantic pop culture convention currently taking over my hometown of San Diego. The joke runs like this: Me: Hey kids! Are you ready to go to Comic-Con again…
Posted in Events, Parenting Tagged with: CH, comic-con, laconta-con, my little pony, ponies, princess cadence, st vitus' dance
Some Places Have Memories
Have you ever visited a place that just felt off? It’s a vibe, an embedded memory, or a series of coincidences that taint your view like fingerprints on glasses. This weekend we went to a local park, a small reservoir…
Posted in Events, Writing Tagged with: fiction, kids, park, playground, post-apocalyptic, reservoir, zombies
Parades, Princesses, and a Huge Flag
Flag Day in my little town is as enchanting as a Norman Rockwell painting. For the last few years, we’ve been taking Child Harbat to the parade to see local princesses waving from convertibles, dogs wearing hats, women in black…
Posted in Events Tagged with: CH, clowns, dogs, flag day, local, number two, parade, princesses, Robocop
Miracle of Life
I can’t believe I have to write this again but my daughter has survived another emergency this week. Just two days after her car accident and ride to the hospital, Child Harbat was again in an ambulance after a horrific…
The Value of EMTs
Remember the car crash from Tuesday? I still do. What does Child Harbat remember from it? She had fun riding in the ambulance. And she got a free teddy bear. With all that fire and rescue personnel have to do…
Crash!
I got the text everyone would hate to get: “Call me. In a car accident near the park.” This was from my wife, yesterday morning as I was in a meeting presenting to a group. Because my wife was texting…
Posted in Events Tagged with: accident, ambulance, car crash, CH, emergency room, Ford Escape, hospital, insurance, number two, USAA
Viral Gastroenteritis
I’m now on my second week of a stomach bug that has waged war in my midsection. Often an illness follows a trajectory like a hurled ball—a quick buildup to a peak followed by a long descent. This stomach bug,…
Posted in Events, Parenting Tagged with: CH, chuck norris, flu, illness, number two, stomach bug, viral gastroenteritis
