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Today is President’s Day. What better way to celebrate than with a song from the band the day is named after. No, wait, the band doesn’t have its own holiday? It should. “Some Postman” is from the 2004 album Love Everybody – the last to feature founding member Dave Dederer on guitar. In the video you’ll see…
It has been a couple of weeks. We have been busy with moving back into our own house. The remodel is done to the point where we can move back in, and that has taken up so much time I haven’t really blogged much, let alone take pictures. Here is a selection of those I…
The kids don’t have school tomorrow, Friday, the day before Valentine’s Day. As such they will be doing their “celebration” this afternoon (though as this is getting posted it already happened). Everybody in his class, according to August, is creating a special box to hold their valentines in. Instead of simply having a plain bag…
Last night as we were in the middle of our evening routine getting ready for bed, my daughter Déla currently age 9, said “I don’t want to grow up. I like my childhood.” What more could you ask for?
I hate moving. Growing up mom and I moved every year or so. It wasn’t until I was in my 20s that I lived in the same place for any significant amount of time. When Laura and I moved with Kyle into our house 16 years ago I said I didn’t want to move again….
Sometimes I wonder why I started this blog. Despite the success I recently enjoyed with NaBloPoMo, I still have difficulty coming up with things to post. Even the Music Monday posts, which I enjoy immensely, are a chore to work on half the time. Parenting? Supposedly the “focus” of this blog, right? There are only…
You may wonder why I split up my look at Siouxsie And The Banshees into two parts. You may wonder why there are two parts at all considering the first part was a complete story. Thing is, I have gotten to like and appreciate the band more as time goes on. I’m not under the…
It’s been a couple of weeks, I know, but I haven’t taken that many pictures. We are all so busy, and then again, there’s nothing really to report. It’s all the hecticness of life with a gajillion kids. Earlier this month Ciaran had a Cub Scout meeting. There he worked on creating a scrapbook, one…
Does anybody else remember “Friday Night Videos”? This was a program that aired on NBC Friday nights after “The Tonight Show” a few years before “Late Night With David Letterman” took over that programming slot that night. Debuting in 1983, NBC was looking to capitalize on the popularity of music videos – and produce a cheap late…