Stop Two: a borderland with the biggest horizon you’ll ever see. A place where sand and salt coat everything in a sticky gritty sheen. A place where the hush of foam on the beach follows a contra-bass thump as water…
Land’s Edge
Posted in Events, Parenting Tagged with: beach, child harbat, duck, number two, ocean, outer banks, vacation
Capital City
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…
Posted in Events, Parenting Tagged with: air and space, carousel, CH, DC, hometown, identity, museums, smithsonian, washington
Writing – Seeing Emotion
Lars swung out in pure rage. Even though his eyes didn’t work his mind could see emotion. Sadness was a throbbing continuation of the black that defined his universe. Fear came in jagged blue shocks that raced through his mind…
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
New Book Release!
At last my debut novel sees the light of day! This book started as a single question a few years ago: what side of WWII was Finland on? With a little research I discovered there’s not such a clear answer. …
Posted in Writing Tagged with: ash of winter's work, book, finland, novel, russia, winter war, writing, WWII
Book Preview
Happy Friday! Because I’m feeling magnanimous, all you readers will get a special pre-release peek at part of the cover for my next book being released, The Ash of Winter’s Work. This book will be published very soon, and I’ll…
Plein Air Yoga
When the heat of the day accumulates in the house, by dinnertime all the stuffiness and noise and grumpy tiredness simmers within until we’re all snapping at each other like alligators. Which is how I found myself in the front…
Posted in Parenting Tagged with: cartwheels, CH, children, flexibility, full lotus position, meditation, parenting, yoga
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
The Best Damn Cereal Ever
I like to think of myself as a breakfast cereal aficionado. Sure, I’ve had my youthful indiscretions with Honeycomb and Froot Loops, I’ve trudged through the lean times with generic Cheerios, and I’ve thrown money at tasty but fleeting boxes…
Posted in Baking Tagged with: baking, breakfast, cereal, dried fruit, food, froot loops, gojii berries, granola, honeycomb, lembas bread, museli, oats, raisins, vanilla
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