For the past week I have been completely without any of my three children. It’s been an odd experience; at first I was at a loss as to what to do with my time if I didn’t have any kids to herd. After a few days when it became apparent that their dad, Matt, would [...]

The truth of it is that I just haven’t gotten myself together today, luckily about a year ago I did manage to string a few words together and they are on display below. They aren’t particularly inspiring, I read them and thought the author to be a complete slacker, but there they are…. Seems like [...]

One of the things I tend to do when I write is rant and rave about the oddities here at The Manor, perhaps sometimes giving the impression that life is particularly odd or difficult here. It is odd, sometimes difficult, but there are many moments when I think to myself that life is rather beautiful [...]

We have recently been having a bit of a bug problem here at The Manor. Back in the winter time I got bitten by somthing so scary it motivated even my children to clean and vacuum their rooms lest it nest on the floors of their rooms and snack on them in the night. All [...]

Whenever the children are away for any length of time I get to the point where I simply don’t know what to do with either my hands or my time. Earlier this week I put Loren and one of his best friends on a plane for New York where the two of them will spend [...]