Back in the old country
We’ve landed safely in the UK. My kid got plenty of sleep on the plane, thanks in no small part to the airline bumping us up to a row of three seats instead of two. Remind me to send Air Transat my thanks about that one. It’s a good time to be here! My mother-in-law […]
Tags: Air Transat, my in-laws, my kid, my wife, parenting, vacation
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Flying out today
Today’s the day we’re flying out to the UK to see the family. And it’s going to be a bit of a stressful day, because I didn’t do anything last night to help get ready. Man, I had a whole list of things I was going to do around the house, a bunch of stuff […]
Tags: my job, my kid, my wife, newsradio, sleep, vacation
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Well, at least I’m an impressive disappointment
My daughter has a t-shirt that looks like a pirate tunic. My wife dressed her in it this morning, and then she asked her to pick out a pair of socks. “What kind of socks does a pirate wear?” “Arrr-gyle!” I shouted from the next room. As always, I braced for the groan of disappointment. […]
Tags: my kid, my wife, pirates, puns
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“This baby is a rainbow of parental neglect”
Listen, sometimes your kid is going to get herself covered in magic marker. Sometimes you’re running late, and you don’t have a lot of time to scrub it off. So yes, sometimes you’ve got to take her to daycare like that. Does it make you a bad parent? No. Before I became a dad, would […]
Tags: daycare, magic marker, my kid, parenting, shoes
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My brother and his friends have “suffered” the “wrath” of the Westboro Baptist Church
“Pretty sure [the] Westboro Baptist Church is protesting a play I cowrote down in Kansas,” my brother announced in a tweet on Saturday night. Sure enough, just a few minutes later, my brother tweeted a photo of the WBC in action outside of the Topeka Performing Arts Centre, where Spank! played on Thursday as part of its […]
Tags: ian MacIntyre, Jon Blair, Southern Poverty Law Centre, Spank!, Westboro Baptist Church
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Deeper Society at Northwood tomorrow night
DJ, promoter and friend Ronnie Blake dropped a line early this morning to let me know about an event he’s hosting tomorrow night at Northwood called Deeper Society. It’s a night of “deep soulful house” that will feature the also terrific Mike Lamberti, along with a fellow named Wil Ehren who I haven’t yet had the […]
Tags: Ana Wolkowski, Deeper Society, Disgraceland, events, Everyone's a DJ, Mike Lamberti, my kid, Northwood, Ronnie Blake, Wil Ehren
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It’s all part of the job
“All right!” I shouted in my big fun dad voice. “It’s time to go to work!” And I wish I hadn’t done that, because my kid wasn’t around to hear it. I’d already dropped her off inside the daycare, and now I was leaving alone. For all intents and purposes, my great big “let’s go […]
Tags: daycare, my kid, parenting
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Happy birthday, Jon!
Speaking of important dates, my brother Jon is celebrating his thirty-second birthday today. Join me in wishing him a great one, won’t you? All the best today, Jon. If the year ahead is anything like the year you’ve just enjoyed, it’s going to be a great one. I can’t wait to watch it unfold!
Tags: my brother, my wife
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Here’s an anniversary my wife and I both forgot
Four years ago tonight, I asked my wife to marry me. She said yes, thank God, and now we’ve got a kid and a mortgage. Which is probably why we’d both forgotten the significance of today until my mother pointed it out this morning. Well, what do you want from me? I got two out […]
Tags: my kid, my mother, my wife
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