[You are sitting in your favorite place--- what surrounds you? Make a list using all five senses. - Friday 01/06/15I am on Celcia, at the moment. Things have been crazy, with the twins starting school; Garrett's health; a looming war -- which my wife hasn't mentioned, but I've heard enough rumblings to have figured out what's coming -- and I'm ( Read more... )

Things have been a little busy around here.

[one hundred words on the ins and outs of a successful partnership - Thursday 03/21/13This is a question better asked of my wife. Because, to be perfectly honest, I don't even know why she still puts up with my crap ( Read more... )

[ "All gardening is landscape painting." - Saturday 03/09/13I like the sound of that. I think, though, as with art, you need to have a decent canvas. Sometimes, the landscape is perfect, as it is. Changing what was already there would be more destruction than improvement. However, sometimes, adding new life to damaged ground helps to bring it back ( Read more... )

[ fashionably late or skip something entirely? - Tuesday 03/05/13]

I try to plan accordingly so that I can leave with plenty of time to spare, in case of an unexpected delay. Otherwise, I call ahead to let whoever I'm meeting know I'm running late.

Of course, if I've lost track of time and need to pick Max up from school, I run like hell.

[Five ( Read more... )

[Two ways in which you avoid work. - Tuesday 02/19/13]

Does it count if you avoid work by doing other work? Because I'm really good at finding all the laundry in the house when I don't want to read reports. I'm also really good at alphabetizing all the books in my office when I don't want to clean the bathroom floor ( Read more... )

[100 words on your social circle. - Thursday 01/17/13+ five little people, seven annuals to three months ( Read more... )

[100 words on taking a break. - Thursday 12/27/12A break! How convenient that this is the next item on my list ( Read more... )

(this could be a long night)

[Visited by a series of ghosts - Friday 12/21/12]

5 incidents from the past that made you the way you are today+ I had to guess how to be a good mother, because I didn't have one to learn from ( Read more... )

Because I haven't been keeping my journal the way she wanted me to. I've been looking at her questions and thinking about them, but not actually answering them. So, tonight, I have to sit down and write out all these answers ( Read more... )

[What are two things you can see from where you are right now? Do they have any particular significance to you? - Wednesday 12/12/12]

I see a 10-day-old boy wrapped up in a Tigger blanket. And I'd have to say that he's pretty damn significant to me. Just as are his brothers and his sister.