Despite the images this title may conjure (whether you know who Bruce Springsteen is or not), I’m referring to how my family participated in the Earth Hour. If you are not aware of what Earth Hour is, it is an environmental awareness initiative where anyone who interested in participating would turn off their lights and any non-essential electronics from 8:30 to 9:30 PM on Saturday local time (obviously this time-frame has passed here, but there may be areas where this hasn’t by the time this is read). We made a slumber party out of it. Read more “Dancing in the Dark”
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Coming to Terms
I’m feeling rather introspective at the moment. Life is full of change and complication and agendas that could care less how well you keep up. If you don’t take time to reflect on where you have been and where you are going, the journey loses a lot of its meaning. These words feel somewhat ironic as most of the time I find myself giving my wife the opposite advice – she has a tendancy to let the past and the future overwhelm her so I ground her by telling her to focus on the present. In truth, we need balance; we need to live in the moment while not losing sight of the past or losing focus on the future. But no matter how much it is preached, it is a difficult lesson to embrace. Read more “Coming to Terms”
Back to Normal – OW!
The good news is that after 6 days, my wife is finally home from the hospital. The lesion on her knee is shrinking and she is slowly regaining normal mobility. The bad news is that I now have a small lesion on my arm. I can’t exactly sit here and blame her – in hindsight I was likely the carrier to begin with. I had already had a couple such lesions that I dealt with and moved on. Maybe it is something that I inherited from my father, but it didn’t really occur to me to seek medical attention over the matter. I was acutely aware of the wounds (they seemed like nasty boils) and I would monitor them, treat them as it seemed appropriate, and at times when I considered that I might need to actually see someone about it, I’d decide to wait another day to see if it got better. And gradually it did. Read more “Back to Normal – OW!”
Mr. Mom
I apologize to those few readers I have for my sporadic and infrequent posting as of late. For much of my recent absence, the issue has mostly been that I’ve been busy with work and too drained at the end of the day to sit and write something. But for the past week I’ve had a more serious excuse for my lack of presence – My wife was checked into the hospital on Tuesday for a bad staph infection in her knee that turned out to be MRSA. Read more “Mr. Mom”
Entropy
The bumps and potholes in the road of parenthood are many and often unexpected. And when things are suddenly moving smoothly in the right direction, derailment should not be surprising when it comes. The trouble is that it is a constant struggle to exert order onto something that is innately chaotic. Read more “Entropy”