Tag Archives: Sylvie

Quote for the Day: Montaigne on the difficulty of waking young children

Posted on March 7, 2012 by

Since my wife started a new job, neither she nor our daughter can enjoy the luxury of sleeping in as often as before. And because Wendy leaves for work before I do, the responsibility for making sure Sylvie is up, … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, Sylvie Inez: A selection of photographs taken by little Ms. Sylvie; & Quote for the Day: Montaigne on the aim of parenting

Posted on November 16, 2011 by

In honor of my daughter’s 3rd birthday (which is today), I publish a selection of photographs she herself has taken over the past year. Sylvie very deliberately sets up frames; and for every dozen or so pictures she takes, she … Continue reading →

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Competing Quotes for the Day: Sam Harris contra the Avett Brothers on holding our children

Posted on October 10, 2011 by

A good thing that won’t last Take an experience like carrying your child. You pick your child up hundreds of times a day, it seems. At a certain time, your child is going to get too heavy to pick up. … Continue reading →

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Bring me little water, Sylvie

Posted on October 2, 2011 by

Sylvie Inez was named after her great-grandmothers, Sylva Combs and Inez Hauck. But her other namesake is Leadbelly: Bonus: here are some fine cover versions. The Wailin’ Jennys Harry Belafonte And my favorite: Sweet Honey in the Rock

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Quote for the Day: Montaigne on living in the moment

Posted on August 20, 2011 by

When I walk alone in the beautiful orchard, if my thoughts have been dwelling on extraneous incidents for some part of the time, for some other part I bring them back to the walk, to the orchard, to the sweetness … Continue reading →

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Rocky Mountain High

Posted on July 19, 2011 by

Wendy has been obsessed with New Zealand since we went there together a few years back. She wants to live there, she says, because the mountains are so beautiful. And they are indisputably hard to beat for beauty. “But there … Continue reading →

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Wendy or Sylvie?

Posted on July 6, 2011 by

I can’t get over how much the little girl in this Polaroid resembles another little girl I know:

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My Daughter, Existential Philosopher

Posted on April 3, 2011 by

Overheard: Sylvie’s mother: Are you being a good girl, Sylvie? Sylvie: No, I not being a good girl. Her mother: Are you being a bad girl? Sylvie: No, I not being a bad girl eider. Her mother: Well, what are … Continue reading →

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Next Time Won’t You Sing with Me?

Posted on March 28, 2011 by

Well, it’s hard not to be a little bit proud of this:

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Party Hats

Posted on March 8, 2011 by

We drove by a roadside cemetery last Saturday on our way to Dixon to visit my parents. The cemetary looked like the one in this picture with flat headstones and flowers or decorations by each grave. My 2-year old daughter pointed … Continue reading →

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