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Category Archives: family life

Yea, Nay, What the Hey?

19-Apr-08

Somewhere in the bible there’s a recommendation that you “let your yea be yea and your nay be nay.” I believe this was an admonition against swearing as in “I swear to high heaven I did NOT take the last cookie. It must have been the aliens that swooped down and sucked it up with [...]

Shifting From Park to a Low Idle

15-Apr-08

One spring ritual around here is the April visit to the Dodge dealer to get the ol’ Durango sorted out after a season of driving up and down the rutted washboard formerly known as our private road. It was great when the warranty was still in effect, but the odometer hit 100K in March, so [...]

Best Laid Plans That Aren’t

23-Mar-08

Well, once again, one of my simple plans has morphed into a very complicated operation and I’m asking myself why. Daughter and I were going to take our usual spring trip to wallow in the fleshpots of southern New Hampshire and Vermont where she gets to buy some beads, I get to see some scenery [...]