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Partial List of Thoughts at 4:45 AM
*Note that the question is not do I love my kids enough but rather am I showing them enough love. I am not at all effusive and never have been so it’s an ongoing project for me to intentionally demonstrate my love to my children.
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Home Alone
My kids are old enough to be left home alone now for very short periods of time. It’s a game changer, and the biggest parenting level up I have experienced since the day the youngest went to Kindergarten. Driving to the paint store without grumpy kids in tow this weekend brought back memories of my…
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That Disney Adult post that you all knew was coming.
I’ve been trying to think of a clever way to present this new information to you all, but I guess I’ll just come out and say it. I love Walt Disney World. We went during spring break this year. It was too crowded. It was too hot. The wait times were too long. And I…
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Margaret
I bring my kids to swim lessons on Monday afternoons. The swim school is great but overwhelming: too many harried parents and chaotic, wet children. There’s a toddler and father pair who are always there at the same time as us. The little girl must be around two years old and her name is Margaret.…
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Spring Cleaning
I’m doing some spring cleaning around the house. This is the first time I’ve ever done an intentional deep clean in the spring, and I am largely motivated by our time spent at a Disney World resort last week. This place is a real dump compared to Saratoga Springs! It’s amazing how much time this…
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Happy Little Hops
My kids are eight and ten years old. They both have this strange habit of adding in happy little hops as they walk. Four steps, hop, five steps, skip, three steps, hop. It’s very cute, and I know it won’t last. I would like to remember this.
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Hot Topic
One day you’re twenty-two years old and walking out of Hot Topic for what must be the last time. And all of a sudden, you’re forty and walking back in to buy a Demon Slayer shirt for your anime-obsessed kid.
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Documentary Review/ The Pez Outlaw
High on entertainment value but largely lacking in depth, I enjoyed this quick peek into the life of Steve Glew, the “Pez Outlaw.” Steve Glew spent many unhappy years working as a machinist in Michigan before he began importing European Pez dispensers to sell to US collectors in the 1990s. His rise to Pez infamy…
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Documentary Review/ Torn
Emotionally raw and superbly edited, you don’t have to be a fan of climbing culture to enjoy this documentary about family, grief, and love. Alex Lowe, arguably the world’s best climber, was killed in an avalanche on Shishapangma in 1999, leaving behind his wife, Jenni, and three young sons. Alex’s best friend and favorite climbing…
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Fatty on a Treadmill
I signed up for Facebook in 2004. Back then it was still new, and slowly opening up to various colleges across the country. I navigated the site on my trusty Dell desktop computer. I noticed that an acquaintance of mine had joined a new group, something along the lines of “Hey Fatty Get Off My…