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Archive for October, 2008

this is why i don’t write a blog about finances

Did you hear there’s like, an economic crisis going on? 
I haven’t written about it because, eh…everyone else is writing about it.  People who pay attention to these things and have budgets and clip coupons and have much more valuable advice and tips like packing your lunch and then washing and re-using your Ziploc bags.
The insidious [...]

hello you

So I am back at work.  The land of florescent lighting, windowless offices, and clock watching has welcomed me back as if I never tried to defect.  The smell is the same – that depressing combination of ambition and boredom and burnt coffee.  Smiling Glamour$hots of 50-something wives and ambitious slogans decorate desks as I stumble [...]

is this how it’s supposed to be?

Three months ago, I was afraid of my son. 
I didn’t know him, and I certainly didn’t know what to do with him.
Our time together was crunched into the hours between 5 and 7 along with cooking, eating, playtime, bathtime, pajamas, gotosleep.  It was the playtime that I feared.  How do you play with someone who [...]

a fitting finale

I come to a lot of what I think are profound realizations in writing on this blog (for as pathetic and sparse as my writing has been the last three months).  Probably none of these tokens of brilliance are anything that someone else hasn’t figured out already but just like my two year old, I figured [...]