Yesterday, as I was packing up my car to leave Massillon and come back to Columbus for Thanksgiving with the Fredericks, my dad gave me a sermon series to listen to, called “Too Small to Ignore” from RiverTree.  “It’s good,” he said, “It’s about kids.”
I was thinking, kids… parenting…. hmm… I guess this might come in [...]

Boys.

Snails.

The lovely Ann at Dawes.

Ann said that it reminds her of Jane Austin books, and it kinda does. Doesn’t it.

I really enjoy reading old headstones.

Jumping Picture. I haven’t taken one of these in a while.

I love him so very much.

My fake henna tatoo, drawn with markers.

I got tagged by Ann, so I am supposed [...]

And then — just between you and me —
I take a swallow of cold tea
and in the manner of the ancient Chinese
pick up my pen
and write down that bird I hear outside,
the one that sings,
pauses,
then sings again.
— In the Room of a Thousand Miles. Billy Collins.
I am reading a poetry book by Billy Collins called, [...]

Photo of the day:

On average…
1 American child consumes the same amount as….
2 Japanese children
6 Mexican children
13 Chinese children
32 Indian children
and 372 Somalian children.
Tommorow.. The Stills and Jason Collett.

This is sort of a secret, but yesterday I acquired a global positioning device, the SGM-005, that can give me the precise location of any person, place or thing in pretty much the whole world. Yesterday, I used it to locate our very lost Donato’s Pizza. Today I used it to track down my cell [...]