A New Grandkid Arrives
Meet Silas Noah. He seems confused. Welcome to reality, Silas. He would be my sixth grandchild, and ninth if you count the step-grandkids, which I do. That means I have as many grandkids as my […]
Tag: babies
Misread News Item
I misread the following news title today: “A 46,000-year-old worm found in Siberian permafrost was brought back to life, and started having babies”– Business Insider, July 28, 2023 I really thought for an instant that the sentence […]
Will I be a grandfather or a grandmother?
Yeah, life. It’s a thing, ain’t it? You’re rolling along, way too busy, doing too much of what you don’t really want to do and not enough of what you do. Then, one day, you […]
I don’t wanna hold your baby
Your baby might be real cute, but I don’t wanna hold it. It’s not personal. When I got a new car, I didn’t ask people if they wanted to drive it. When I got my […]
Mongolian Hot Pot and Culinary Wars
Mongolian Soup SHUA YANG JOU Mongolian hot pot INGREDIENTS 5 ounces cellophane noodles or bean threads 1″ ginger root 3 green onions 1 onion ¼ cup parsley, fresh 1 pound bok choy or Chinese cabbage […]
Snacking on the Job and Dancing on the Titanic: What I Learned From Magazines This Week
Reading Magazines this week, I learned that: Half of American adults eat lunch alone. (New York Times Magazine, 2/28/16) There are currently no openly atheist members of Congress. (New York Magazine, 2/22/16) Babies in the […]
Post-Traumatic Easy Bake Oven Disorder
What’s your favorite horrible holiday childhood memory? One of my cherished unpleasant flashbacks arrive every year during Thanksgiving. First, a few facts: I was born a few days after Thanksgiving Day in 1961. At birth, I weighed […]
Sex Toys “R” Us
We are accustomed to many children’s movies making some extra bucks through commercial tie-ins or merchandising. So it’s not surprising that just as the current “SpongeBob” movie was released, little SpongeBob fans began […]
What lies beneath
Recently I got the rare honor of spending the day with my adorable little baby niece. When my mother called and asked me if I could watch her, I thought, well hell yes. She’s cute, […]
Unicorn Bites 4/5/14
My 3-year-old asks me “Why?” 10,000 times a day, so, no, I don’t think I’d crack under torture. — Exploding Unicorn (@XplodingUnicorn) April 5, 2014 Me:*wakes up 3-year-old* 3: How old do I have to […]