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lock and load 25 Aug 2013 | 12:48 pm
I get home in the gloaming, darker and darker earlier at the end of summer. I put the bike inside and take my dog out for an evening piss. Halfway up the block I hear the unmistakable run of a child a...
my daughter sends us an email: 24 Aug 2013 | 11:33 am
She writes: “In other words, find out what the heck you believe in. I’m more of a agnostic theist.”
cha-cha-cha like no one’s business 23 Aug 2013 | 11:14 am
Today on a walk the three kids and I spied a family of otters out in the depths of the Hoquiam river. Fiesty, playful otters – three from what we could tell. As we walked on a quarter mile Phoenix gas...
i know it will probably work out because she’s sassy AF 22 Aug 2013 | 09:42 am
In the process of enrolling my “unschooled” child into public school, we have ended up speaking with several individuals for input or, in some cases, necessary arrangements. These individuals include ...
there and back again 21 Aug 2013 | 09:38 pm
Day surgery, a surreal experience. I slept poorly the night before but if there’s one thing I don’t need great sleep for, it’s anesthesia. If you read here you probably know: I am terrified of medica...
shit is all emotional up in this biatch 20 Aug 2013 | 11:01 am
Tomorrow morning I have a minor surgical procedure and I’ll be bruised and bleeding, no that’s actually pissing blood, for a couple days afterwards. That’s best-case scenario as they may find they nee...
tell yourself it’s all you know / you should know me better than that 19 Aug 2013 | 09:56 am
Tonight my work at the treatment center was less than stellar. Every now and then there is this tension and there are less-than-civil interactions… a hostility, specifically directed at me or at least...
a greater compliment than being loved 18 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
My daughter has decided she’d like to go to school this year. I am totally cool with this, although several home educators and home/unschoolers I know have expressed their worry, and/or their thoughts...
4ever in blue jeans 17 Aug 2013 | 10:15 am
Jeans, you bastards! (Excuse the wear – Nels wore them all day.) Full disclosure – I acquired many of my current favorite jeans construction techniques from Kenneth D. King’s “Jean-ius!” class, which ...
the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation 16 Aug 2013 | 11:44 am
Today I took care of my mind, soul, and body. Most notably, and at times exhausting, I worked intensively with other alcoholics. And it was a special day for a number of reasons. One woman, under two ...
