Misfortune: The suitcase containing my CDs was lost by Northwest Airlines on the way to Grand Forks, North Dakota Saturday. Fortunate: The suitcase containing my clothes and Compassion child sponsorship packets made it. Misfortune: My cold transformed into something evil, something flu-ish by show time Saturday night at the University… Read More
Archive Tag: cult-de-sac
Ireland Trip Foiled By Flep
I don’t get to see Brian and Amy much these days. Brian works for Compassion and not me anymore. The cold weather has forced the cult-de-sac inside, and our busy holiday travel schedules have taken us separate ways. So Becky and I were looking forward to a family vacation to… Read More
Pure Evil
The Domesticator, a princess, Captain Jack, Batman and a fairy. World, meet the kids of the cult-de-sac. A frog and a princess. . View Post
Warning: Keep Your Kids Away From My Wife
Becky was sitting in our front yard on the wooden bench, a tall glass of water in one hand, the garage door open and all it’s toys supplying an endless stream of neighborhood kids, a yard full of happy little people playing all around her. Ten year-old Jordan from next… Read More
Brody’s Gone
Little brother Gresham had just been asked not to say “dang it” but instead to find better words when he gets mad or frustrated. “Try saying ‘I don’t like it when this happens’,” Becky suggested as I smirked from across the room in a way that clearly unsupportively said that’s… Read More
Party In The Cult-De-Sac
I’m sitting on the grass bwteen Brody‘s house and Brian‘s handing five year-olds off to arriving parents. They all made it all night long, in the dark, in tents, with dogs howling in the distance and frogs croaking. All us adults had bets going on how many kids would bail… Read More