DATELINE – Tuesday night. As I’ve done all but three or four Tuesdays in the past two and a half years, I worked. Tuesday is the night we do layout for the fabulous Braidwood Journal. If you haven’t read my paper lately, please do so! Small towns bring a wide amount of controversy. It’s fun! Anyway, [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘family’
August 20, 2010
Summer’s last blast
It was a familiar sight this morning. The backpacks. The fresh haircuts. The shiny new shoes. The refusal to listen. Ah, yes, back to school time has arrived. I love summer with a passion that few people understand. Sure, everyone seems to enjoy the warm weather and cookouts and lazy weekends. But more people seem [...]
August 19, 2010
Dads, daughters and dookie
It all happened several summers ago. There we were, enjoying the Happy Place. For those of you unfamiliar with the Happy Place, it looks like this: This is what children look like in the Happy Place: Oh my God how HAPPY is that?? You can see why we call it the Happy Place, eh? Check [...]
June 26, 2010
Rivalry, schmilvary
So, the Cubs and Sox are playing this weekend in the second installment of this year’s big crosstown classic. Which frankly, lost all its allure (in my opinion) when interleague play started. Back in the day, when it was just a single game that they played for the fans on an off day for both teams, [...]
June 7, 2010
Cancer – a kick in the butt
There are two things to know about my family as I start this post: 1 – My mother has colon cancer. 2 – We are the family that truly puts the FUN in dysfunctional. Cancer sucks. It sucks balls. Or, in my mother’s case, it sucks BUTT (get it). You don’t have to have cancer [...]
May 31, 2010
It’s strong in this one…
I cannot believe that I left out the very most important part of the story regarding Hank and the tale of the super mean German Shepherd. So there we were, sitting in the ER. After several hours and a good cleaning, that wound just looked bad. Not big, but deep. A gash, if you will. [...]
May 2, 2010
boys. boys. boys.
I’ve been quite busy lately. In all honesty, I am exhausted. And it’s all about the boys. They are taking a lot of energy out of me these days! Let’s take a look at some examples, shall we? There’s Hank’s new-found love of soccer: I won’t lie. I’m not really a fan of soccer. Call [...]
April 8, 2010
Thumbs up
We all know it. We’ve all done it. It’s the international sign of “hey, it’s all cool.” It brings us closer to the Fonz. It’s “thumbs up.” Back at St. James, when we were occasionally good-natured children (which wasn’t necessarily common for the Class of ’88 but it did sometimes happen), we would be rewarded with a game. [...]
March 27, 2010
Style is in the eye of the beholder…
Last summer I thought long and hard about starting a blog. I really wanted to. But I have a major confession I must make. The whole concept did not start as an effort to type out my daily rants and ravings over the awesomeness that is my children or the ridiculousness that is GleN Beck. [...]
