Posts filed under Philosophy

I feel confident in my assumption that my 30s will be a lamb-like ten years of easy-to-deal-with stuff because my 20s are definitely going out like a fierce, roaring lion of doom. Yes, like The Jazz Singer of the apocalypse, with each second that ticks me closer to my 30th birthday, scores of flapper [...]

This weekend, in addition to starting my nine-month Midcoast Leadership Academy series at UMaine, my folks came up to visit with Hazel in-person rather than via webcam or blog post. We packed in a lot of fun, but one high point was an early birthday celebration. Sure, I don’t actually turn 30 for [...]

Like an adorable sponge, Hazel is soaking up language at a frenzied pace currently. Her vocabulary arsenal silos into three distinct categories:

Food Words: These were the first words Hazel mastered. “Turkey”, “cracker”, “hot dog”, “noodle”, and the ever-popular, two-arms-in-the-air “Ketchup!!”
Manner Words : While we typically have to remind her to say them, we [...]

Okay, here’s your fair warning that this post is kind of gross. You still have time to scoot off and read The Family Circle or something.
Currently, I’m being torn apart by a paradox. Something’s going on and I have two complete opposite ways of reacting. I can only do one and both [...]

Yesterday, when I got home from work, Megan and Hazel were hanging out front in the shaded (as opposed to the shady) part of the yard. I pedaled up, making a damn dashing entrance even with my dorky bike helmet perched atop my head like an oversized conch shell. After a few minutes of debriefing [...]

As I have detailed in the past here and here, I think I am the center of universal attention — hence the blog and all. Despite my debilitating self-absorption, I actually managed to ride my new bike to work last week without breaking out in a nervous sweat (or any sweat at all; the two-mile [...]