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Lemonade Chicken

I’ve been trying to cook slow-carb recipes to support my wife’s dietary interests, it’s pretty much like low-carb but with the addition of legumes, especially lentils and beans. A lot of the time, I’m right along with her, I don’t mind eating that way even though I’m not officially trying to diet or anything. Our [...]

Privacy vs. honesty vs. objectifying

I have a weird relationship to writing about my family on the web. Of course there are certain things I just never will document. And there’s some stuff that is really fun to share. And there’s stuff that happens that makes me think about other things. When these things touch on my family life, [...]

Sleeping and not

Sometimes I think the only reason my body and brain have trained me to sleep poorly is so that I can occasionally witness mornings like this one.

It’s late spring in Santa Fe, and that could mean anything – even snow. Just as the first shades of sunrise were hinting at morning, it was [...]

Updates part II: the new dogs

All right; we’ve had the 411 on the old guys – if you knew them, you probably got what you needed, if you didn’t know them, you wouldn’t care. Consider this more of same.

Loki came to us through one of our first friends in New Mexico. Her teenage daughter had given him to [...]

Brain pain

Me: OK brain. I don’t like you and you don’t like me. Let’s just get this sleep thing happening and we’ll both feel better in the morning.

Brain: No can do, señor.

Me: What? Why?

Brain: I’m too tired. You’ll have to find something else to do for a while.

Me: Too tired… to sleep? [...]

Another day in the life of…

I was dropping my 2 girl dogs off at the vet this morning for their appointment to be fixed. Molly, our pit mix, pulled out of her collar and walked away from me. Not a big deal, she’s not exactly Cujo, but I still wanted to get the collar back on her so I [...]

Our latest houseguests: Updated

I might not be the coolest dad in the world but… well, I’m not sure how to finish that without hinting that I secretly believe that I actually am the coolest dad in the world. And I’m probably not. But I’m not bad. Mostly.

My kid loves insects and lizards and small animals of [...]

I Accidentally My Kindle

Love. I accidentally love my Kindle.

I’ve been completely disinterested in the e-book phenomenon. I like reading, I get books cheaply, I read them, it works out. I love buying used books, ex-library books with card pockets in the front and exotic stamps from places like “Ohio” and “Florida.” I can set a cup [...]

Updates part I: the old dogs

So all 3 dogs I moved to New Mexico with have died. No specific tragedy happened, they just all got old and it was time. Bearing in mind that we don’t know the exact ages of our street rescues, the youngest was at least 14 when she passed. (I still don’t know how I feel [...]

Let’s try this again

Hello. I’m back.

I’m going to start blogging again, I’ve had enough of a break to put some energy into it and other writing projects and exercises leave me wanting more outlets that I’ve got, so here goes. Meanwhile, I did set up a photography website as I mentioned I’d probably do first. We’ve had [...]