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Oil like pee

The other day, my three year old daughter and I changed the oil in my motorcycle. I had rocked it back and onto its centre stand in the barn after moving the tractor out of the way and into the field. Well, first we forgot the right wrench in the basement to remove...

Love

Owen’s question to me tonight as I put him to bed: “Dada, what is love?” He was so sleepy that the question kind of slipped out of his mouth as we lay in the dark, foreheads touching and me drifting off myself. I had just sung him Per Spelman: Per...

Questions Redux

Owen and I still do the questions thing at night; not every night, but most. I have wondered why I haven’t been feverishly writing down the questions and responses we engage in. I have to think that while I still don’t really know why, my best guess is...

What to write?

There has been a conspicuous absence on this journal of any textual analysis or real thought. Anecdotal bits, yes. Photo bits, yes. I have wondered quite a bit about this and have more or less arrived at the realization that this journal isn’t really so private...

4th of July

The following was written by one Howard Zinn, of Boston University for The Progressive: “On this July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out...

Where I’ve been:

Not that many places it would seem. But I am well-fed by the cultural experiences had outside my own country.

Must be summer…

We eat dinner outside more often, we play outside more often, and yes, we pee outside more often (its pretty rare to try the last in the winter anyway). There have been visitors by the carload so far this summer and that’s been just fine by us. We were humbled...

Oh lordy…

Brainfall.com “What kind of drink are you?” “You are a Juice Box. Some say you’re no fun, but you know better than to waste your time drinking. Not only does alcohol cut down on time better spent being productive, studies show it can have an...