John and I had an interesting email exchange over the course of the day. Deleting the personal and irrelevant stuff, it went more or less like this: Me: Day’s going okay so far. K and I are both still alive. Could you make arrangements to swap stuff with the Barretts for Saturday? John: Right. Will…
Category: Marriage
My night-time reading canon
As far back as I can remember, I’ve read myself to sleep. As a kid, I churned through C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia, which I encountered at the age of five while stricken with chicken pox), Roald Dahl (Danny, Champion of the World, The BFG, etc.), F.W. Dixon’s accounts of Frank and Joe Hardy…
Weird weekend – warning: lots of whining
Right, so we’re down to a month until everything for the show has to be completed and two days before photography for the invites has to be done. Not everything need be ready for photographing, but I do need a good selection of pieces available and they should be representative of what the show will…
Somewhat overdue accolades
On June 22nd, 1996, John and I formally saved two other people from having to tolerate our aberrations and punning. I intended to write one of those sappy and charming, “it’s been a great ten years” posts a couple of months ago, but life got in the way. Actually, that’s not strictly true. I put…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 