Monthly Archives: September 2009

I’m listening to The Time Traveler’s Wife audiobook, and I noticed a character misused the word “momentarily.”  This is one of my pet peeves — “I’ll be with you momentarily” is wrong unless you mean, “I’ll be with you for a moment, and then I’ll be gone again.” Anyway, now I’m wondering, did the author […]

A couple of nights ago at dinner time, Kaeta said (apropos of nothing): “If we get a new house, we have to bring the whiteboard, and the drill, and your tool stuff.  And the brownies, and the bookshelves.” “Oh?  What else?” (Looking around…) “Marty.  And his crate.  And the new baby.” Now we can see […]

The kids were all the way at the other end of the house, but when they heard we were taking pictures of Coco, they came running.  We couldn’t even get the first picture snapped before the little blurs came running over to give the baby kisses. Our kids are so silly. And cute. And sweet. […]

I was really nervous about how Kaeta was going to like homeschooling.  She’s been looking forward to it for weeks, and I was a little worried that she would be disappointed.  But so far, that has not been the case.  We only have formal lessons (and I use the word “formal” pretty loosely) three days […]

This is a rough recording from a few weeks ago. I keep thinking I’ll re-record it, but who am I kidding, that’s never gonna happen! So here it is: Download the MP3