As we were walking out the doors of the Dumb Friends League, a volunteer called out after us. “She is the sweetest dog here,” she pressed, “and old dogs need homes too.” Chloe really was a sweet dog, I couldn’t deny that. Her chances of finding a home were dwindling. She was already eleven, surrendered with a sister dog who had long since been adopted, and already…
I’m a terrible dad. That’s what rolled through my head as Valiant Hearts’ tragic final ending faded into credits. Over the past couple months, Kella has been on a huge video game kick, and I’ve tried my best to steer her towards the few and far between E rated games on the Xbox. She found Valiant Hearts on her own, a World War I themed game that…
Hello to the three people who’ll read this, it’s time for some Throwback Thursday fun! While digging through my files, I found the data dump for the website where Amy and I (though really, mostly Amy) wrote about Finley’s first few months. The information is totally unusable as is (doesn’t help that the backup software I used no longer exists), so I figured it’d be…
Finley was nervous. He’d been talking about it for days with an electric undercurrent, simultaneously bragging and seeking reassurance. “It looks like this,” he’d say, holding his hands together to make a circle, “like a donut.” Then, finally, Friday came. From the moment he woke up until the actual event late in the evening, Finley couldn’t stop talking about it. “Is my MRI now? Are we going…
We made an impromptu trip to the mountains a couple weekends ago. It was still in the grueling weeks of Busy Season, but after leaving the office Saturday, I decided we needed to run around in giant hamster balls and relax in the hot springs. The hamster balls we accomplished in Frisco thanks to a present Amy gave me for my birthday. It helped me appreciate…
As the throwback book closed on the movie just like in the original cartoon, I couldn’t help but think that Rudyard Kipling would have liked Disney’s latest version of The Jungle Book. I remember reading a while ago (and confirmed today on Wikipedia, so it must be true) that Walt Disney wasn’t happy with the first draft of The Jungle Book. The screenwriters had stuck too closely…
In my constant search for Xbox games that don’t encourage my children to take chainsaws to aliens’ faces, I have occasionally bought the random E rated game just because it’s on sale. Beyond Eyes is one of those games. Beyond Eyes is brought to you by the publisher of Worms, the adorably cute game where cartoon worms try to murder each other with bazookas, hand…
I had to use the clickbait title. The post was begging for it. Anyway, I’ve been pretty open about the difficulties we’ve been having with Finley over the past month or so, which haven’t so much subsided as become an expected part of life. While at times I’m on the verge of jumping off the Serenity Now ledge into the pit of insanity, especially considering…
I’ve decided that we have daughters to boost our self esteem, at least while they’re young. Or better put, daughters are designed to boost our self esteem in their early years so they have a bigger target to hit when they’re teenagers. The examples I can give of Kella are numerous, but I just want to focus on one today. My drawing abilities. No one…
Long ago, while Finley and Oliver were still cooking, I had dreams of zoning out on the couch with my children and destroying an entire new generation in Bomberman. Things haven’t worked out so far with Finley, who has shown minimal interest, zero aptitude, and even less patience when it comes to traditional controller-in-hand video games. Since I had no desire to test how many…