"snippets of life" posts from the past : Merry December!

We brighten or darken the days of those around.

The agony & the ecstasy of collective bargaining.

Pipsqueaks & popcorn: let fame live upon our brazen tombs.

Something pretty in the ruins (I will write this well to remember it well).

Caldecott books : "Prayer for a Child" (1944)

‘Sometimes you should not be the one to help.’

All those jazzy notes splayed out (11 snippets on a Wednesday).

I throw my arms around you forever.

Pre-Christmas calm : underwear dresses and bass guitars on a winter break Monday.

Monday’s just a toot.

She walks with such elegance (43 reflections on my wife).

How to help your children take initiative with chores (the duet of vacuums singing a swan song).

Our Life the Musical the Musical the Yelled Word Version: the Series.

Emergency services on demand.

The clothes we don’t wear in the unmowed lawn at dawn.

How to negotiate what you want on a Friday.

A boy feeds a goat (five things on a Tuesday).

How to be your age (the edge of 2, 5, 11, and 14).

Big bloody hug (1 part 2-year old, 2 parts 4-year old).

11 haiku of a Friday in December.

amblings and ramblings

On top of a mountain with one wife, four kids, three cats, a goat, a dragon, and two billion books.

Young children playing with handmade wood blocks

Make hiker in his 40s trying to look all cool by a lake.

Twins reading newspaper and on typewriter

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