(Talk derby to me. That’s the motto.I got a t-shirt that says that and it freaks people out. Put this pic up mostly for Sam and his wife. Come roll in Chicago! Our most recent Windy City Rollers visit was this one in early June. Got Ken to be a sportsfan finally.)
Yesterday was one of [...]

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(Field trip to Bahai temple a few months ago. Finally figured out how to put camera phone pics on the computer.)
The setting: in front of the computer, in air-conditioning, dinner warm and ready, beer in hand.
Let me tell you how poker outs the child and his inner nature. For father’s day we got [...]

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I don’t know about you, but when the weather gets warm and the crockpot gets packed up, we really get in to cooking a little more exotically around here. All that fresh produce from the farmer’s market really gets me psyched. As my kids get older, they are more interested in helping, tasting and experimenting [...]

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(You wouldn’t believe how big this leaf is)
Shit. It has been a crazy few days. I’ve been on a whirlwind tour, reconnecting with a bunch of pals. In fact, I just sent an email off to one this morning, asking how she was doing, explaining that my daughter was at a new gymnastics place [...]

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R.I.P. Punk Planet, the print version. The blog will live on, I hope! We’ll miss ye. Remember, punk never dies, it just mutates and flies in to something else. I’ll draw a picture of it sometime to explain. Meanwhile, I’ll have to search harder to find where the talented writers are now.

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I think this Jason has some good points in his comics. We seem to be going through a comic fad here. Anoif has joined Anime school. Mainly this involves her drawing dozens of cute things, and occasionally Ken will lend his wisdom and art experience and give her an assignment, such as, choose a comic [...]

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Our Father’s day in sequential order. In case the picture above is too small: breakfast in bed, father-child bonding while assembling new comfy chair. Ken trying out chair, chair replacing old nasty chair,. Anoif makes a periscope out of box parts, children make a fort out of new chair box.Ken hoists Anoif on his shoulder [...]

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(Just before 14 years of married road paved us over, we looked like errant members of Flock of Seagulls. But we slept-in just about every day, darnit.)
Yesterday morning, I heard my kids online filling out a questionnaire for a reading program they are both doing. Anoif says , “Mail, it says here ‘If I [...]

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(14 years of wedded bliss as of today. There is a reason it is a thumbnail. That’s because it is the most recent picture taken of us and it was taken at dawn on Easter morning as children heartily sought out eggs and we hadn’t even brewed the caffeine yet.)
Okay, so yesterday my daughter and [...]

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( A little friend who, along with his million pals, kept dive bombing us Tuesday as we tried to swim at a friend’s pool.)
Driving on the highway with my trusty sidekick Tina the other day, we happened upon a smoking vehicle. The clouds of grey smoke were so thick and prevalent that at first I [...]

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