Happy Holidays from all of us
Merry Christmas From The Family by Robert Earl Keen
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Hiatus?
Sorry for the lack of communication on my blog lately, but I’ve been too busy being ridiculously happy in my new job to worry much about this site. I love, love, love my new job — there are no customers, my supervisors are great, and there is a lot of thinking/problem solving involved, all [...]
Redneck Swimming Pool
I have often wondered if I would have liked Tucson better if we had bought a house with a pool at the start. I was always worried about Ben, and later, Maya, drowning in a pool so I adamantly refused to even look at properties that had pools when we first moved here. [...]
Some New Photos
Now that I’ve discovered graphic arts, I am planning to make some changes around the site, particularly in the masthead, but the first thing I did was get rid of the remaining stock photos in my changing photo in the upper right-hand corner. I had removed most of the photos, replacing them with pictures [...]
Conversation with a 2-year-old
Me: “What’s your name, Maya?”
Maya: “Princess.”
Me: “Princess what?”
Maya: “Princess.”
Me: “Is your name Maya?”
Maya: “No. It’s Ariel.”
Me: “Ariel or Princess?”
Maya: (Practically rolling her eyes) “Princess Ariel.”
Me to Marti: “I think we’re going to regret this someday.”
American “Karate,” or Karate-Themed Entertainment for Kids
Today we went to our very first “karate” tournament here in the U.S. I put “karate” in quotes because, well, it just simply isn’t karate — at least not any karate I ever learned living 20 km north of Okinawa, birthplace of the art. If I cringed the first time the instructor mentioned how karate [...]