Here's something to make longtime readers of this LJ blanch over lost time: last Friday, Abbey graduated from high school. No, I don't know what happened. I certainly don't recall ever consenting to be the father of a high school graduate, but there you have it. When I started this blog, she was five, feisty and falling in crush over an Elvis ( Read more... )

It's a weekend with the kids, which these days means an ongoing battle against torpor and inertia, especially where nearly-16-year-old Nik is concerned. To illustrate, I give you the following exchange from my last kid weekend:

Me: [standing in the kitchen, eating a bowl of cereal]
Nik: [entering] I'm hungry.
Me: [gestures around the kitchen] ( Read more... )

I'm sitting at a window seat at the Thirsty Mind coffeehouse across from the Mount Holyoke campus. This week I've been looking after the kids and Duncan the Grandmonkey in Easthampton while Kristi is away at a conference. I normally view these times with no small amount of dread, largely because of my kids' penchant for attempting to murder each ( Read more... )

I got back from a weekend with the kids and bonus grandkid on Sunday and wondered, given that I'd just spent two days with a toddler blowing snot bubbles, what lovely and photogenic contagions I'd taken home with me. Turns out it was the Mighty Morphin' Power Plague, devolving from vomiting and the trots to fever and soreness to some respiratory ( Read more... )

All right, enough of this radio silence. Here's what's been going on in the last month or so, plus or minus the next week:

* cluegirl and I have our (please, gods) last recording session for Pretty in Scarlet this weekend, along with some Murder Ballads band photos for the back cover and a trip to the bank to start up our official band checking account ( Read more... )

* I've finally reinstated my paid LJ account. I'd had a paid account since day 1 back in 2003, when you had to bankroll your way in unless you knew someone, which I didn't. I mainly exploit the polls feature, but it's nice to have the icons back ( Read more... )