God bless those clever people at Motorola. The Slvr phone can take one hell of a licking and keep on a-ticking. It might be a tad bit early to tell, but it looks like after just a bit over 24 hours after the washing machine incident the kids’ phone is accepting calls, making calls, [...]

A few weeks ago I got off my ass and ordered a round of new cell phones for the house. My old ghetto phone worked but rarely felt so inclined to ring. One cell phone had a number but not a phone and the other took calls but didn’t transmit them. In the process I [...]

Today Cassidy started her week long art camp. In truth it is something that I thought would fill her week and stifle the all too often urge between the two of us to spear the other on a long spit and roast her over an open flame in preparation for dinner. I was lucky enough [...]

Today is Father’s Day. As with every day since June 1st, I woke up and forced myself to slowly breathe in and then even more slowly beathe out. Because if I wake up and inhale too fast, I have a hard time breathing out again. Today was no different except that it was a day [...]

My kids got up at 8 a.m. this morning. I decided yesterday that I would get a grasp on the summer holiday and have the children begin their first Official Day of Summer Vacation with productivity; the chores began at 9 a.m. Loren was in the dog yard with his new weed eater, Cass was [...]

I have accomplished almost nothing over the past couple of weeks. Well, that’s not entirely true, but the things I have done have been all about getting the kids here and there. There have been camping trips, braces, presentations, a graduation and far too much drama. I am putting nearly all of my hope [...]