It appears, from the accumulation of results that I gleaned from Facebook, Flickr and the comments here, that the verdict on yesterday’s images is split fairly evenly between first and second photos (the one that is overall crisper and the one where the house in the background is sort of blurry). Some folks preferred more…
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Exploring and Options
One of my (slightly odd) personal traditions is to mark Katherine’s birthday by taking time on my own to wander, explore, think and generally mark the passage of time. After you have kids, you rather forget about your own age until your birthday rolls around and then you generally cringe slightly. With children in your…
Picking up speed
Another year has cycled through and Katherine is nine. It constantly astounds me how time accelerates as children grow. When I watch her now, there’s so little of the baby left and the child fast-disappearing as well; the girl is as much coloured by the adult she’ll be as by the infant she was. Happy…
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful (according to e.e. cummings)
“The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.” ― E.E. Cummings A friend just posted another e.e. cummings quote (they do seem to pop out around Valentine’s Day, don’t they?) and I was reminded of the quote above about snow, that I saw recently on someone’s blog (cannot for the life of…
Solitude and the lack thereof
The hardest part of having a kid at home sick (or on a PD day), for me, is the lack of time alone. Katherine was feeling rotten this morning and has spent the day curled up either in bed or on the couch. She’s not a demanding patient, which is good because I’m not a…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 