Monthly Archives: July 2002
Creepy Playground Parents!
Creepy Playground Parent #1 The Faux-hippie Dad Who Can Find a Lesson in Anything Faux-hippie dad and his two-year-old son at the marble maze (a wooden thing with zig-zagging chutes, you put a marble at the top and watch it … Continue reading
Episode
One morning last week, at about 7:00 a.m., my father started feeling a little funny, so he went to his recliner and lost consciousness. My mother came in a short while later, sat down next to him, and fell asleep … Continue reading
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Tagged Dad, Hypochondria and my fascination with medical procedures, Observations on the human condition
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Impressive, or just wrong
Normally, doing yoga is one of those things that just makes life better for me. Mood better, muscles better, sleep better, food tastes fantastic, I can hear colors . . . no wait, that was that weekend in high school … Continue reading
One of the fundamental joys of parenthood
One of the fundamental joys of parenthood is dressing your kid funny. Stripes and plaid together! Wheee!
Every time I walk into a room
Every time I walk into a room and forget what I came in for, I say, “SO . . .”. Unfortunately, this doesn’t usually prompt my short-term memory, but it does compel me to become Joel Gray in Cabaret and … Continue reading
I’M COVERED IN BEEEEES
Robin Williams now seems like a second-rate Eddie Izzard.
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Tagged I invite you to go elsewhere, I may be the only one who finds this funny
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Sunday night we took the Nut out to dinner
Sunday night we took the Nut out to dinner at Aldo’s. Apparently, every parent of a child under eighteen months said “Fuck it” and packed up the car to go out that night, because the normally pleasant and quiet downtown … Continue reading
Confession
I have just figured out the base smell of Jackson’s worst diaper dandies: nail polish remover. But oh, you say, Wasn’t he found chewing on a bottle of nail polish remover just the other day? Yes, I reply, he was, … Continue reading
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Favorite
One of the things I used to love about reading Salon was that every other Friday there’d be a new story by Mary Roach. I don’t know why that stopped, was it last year? Salon is having budget problems, I … Continue reading
I have to clean up my act.
This is what I said to Jack last night as we were driving away from the grocery store (the fancy Ralph’s on Carrillo, not the down-on-its-luck Ralph’s on De La Vina) and we saw this dumpy, middle-aged, gray-roots, baggy-shorts wearing … Continue reading
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