It’s Time To Choose
I recently found myself in the position of having time. How I have this time is not important. But as I use this time, I found myself thinking about how I actually use time. I can use the time to worry. Or I can use the time to wonder. Or I can do everything I can with it, it’s really up to me. So today I started weeding the front (which was near jungle-status. It was so bad, Axl Rose…
Fired Up
No, I do not regret giving my daughter the middle name, “Khaleesi”. First, “Khaleesi” is a title, not a name (it means “queen” in the imaginary language of Dothraki). As my daughter’s first name is “Katia” (which means “pure” in Russian – a genealogy of which my daughter has as much of as Dothraki), her name means “Pure Queen”. Second, my daughter isn’t named for a character that is a freedom fighter for the oppressed, but rather for a character…
Power!
The Bitterest Pill
Woke up this morning to the realization that a lot of families were unsure how to discuss exactly what happened with this year’s presidential election. From dear friends to complete strangers, there seems to be a general befuddlement of, “How in the ever-loving eff are we supposed to tell our kids the bully won?” (And this is not a debate about politics, just to be clear. This isn’t about looking back, pointing fingers, or wondering about an alternate timeline. This…
Father’s Day, 2016.
I think my inability to remain stationary comes from my father. Well, my mother, too. (From my father, I gained the bottomless well of projects from which to draw… house projects, yard projects, physical projects, digital projects. You give me something, I’m going to make it a project. Projects require research. And lists. And measurements… twice, at least. Some more research. Then some time to process the data. Pause. Pause. Pause. GO!) This Father’s Day, was non-stop from early morning till…
Meet “The Client.”
When our daughter was born, our friends who had jumped into parenthood before us would say to enjoy every moment. “It goes by so fast!” was the usual refrain. Now, in that, was a subtle hint of foreshadowing that I had not caught… sure, the newborn stage goes by fast. As does the infant stage. The toddler stage seems to go by less quickly, mostly because mobility comes into the mix and ups the logistical planning and zoning challenges with…
The Running Man?
It’s National Running Day… Facebook told me so. And, as it turns out, I will probably run this afternoon, as I do 3-4 times most every week. This weekend, I will run my first 5k (well, first official 5k, as I have run 5k before.) But I am not a runner. I say this often, and truly believe it… look, I’ve seen runners, I know runners, and I just don’t have that same fervent gaze when talking about running. I…
It’s a small world after all… in a galaxy far, far away.
When the announcement came down that Disney would be the owner of Star Wars, my first thought was a simple, “wow”. No capitalization, no exclamation point, no vitriolic anger, no uncontrollable jubilance. Just… Wow. In the time that’s passed, I can say that I am thrilled. Forget about the prequels, forget about the Greedo Incident, forget about “Nooooooooooo!” Because as much as I love Star Wars – and I loves me some Star Wars – I love what Star Wars…