Posted on January 5, 2010 by Turkish Prawn
And so, we bring to a close the winter holiday season, and I must say, I’m sad to see it pass. What’s been unusual and wonderful this year is that we’ve seen a lot of my parents over the last week and a half. They had come up on Christmas Eve and only departed for [...]
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Posted on January 1, 2010 by Turkish Prawn
“Your wife has something she wants to tell you.”
It was my Dad on the phone and he was heading off the island to do some errands in town. Action Girl had been at work on the ferries since early that morning and the wind had been whipping with gusts pushing thirty-five miles per hour [...]
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Posted on December 20, 2009 by Turkish Prawn
I know that using the TV as a babysitter is not going to win me “Parent of the Year,” but there are moments where there just aren’t a lot of other options. To be fair to myself, I don’t actually own a television and haven’t for well over a decade. What I do have though [...]
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Posted on October 21, 2009 by Turkish Prawn
Our kids have a variety of nicknames. I rarely call my son, “Short Stack” to his face, though he will respond to it if you say it repeatedly in a loud clear voice and somehow manage to break through the impenetrable attention-wall of whatever he happens to be doing at the moment. Usually toy trucks [...]
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Posted on September 25, 2009 by Turkish Prawn
As I sit here and type this, I can look down at my hands and see a least three cuts or abrasions in various states of self-repair. If I turn them over… I can’t type any more.
I could also find three or four more.
This is not an uncommon state to find my hands in. Bandages [...]
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