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Tag Archives: Wendy
Quote for the Day: Montaigne on the difficulty of waking young children
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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Tagged Lori Gottlieb, Michel de Montaigne, parenting, Stoic philosophy, Stoicism, Sylvie, Wendy
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The Deafening Noise and Transient Joys of Las Vegas
Many people take a side trip from Las Vegas to visit the Grand Canyon. So I can’t be the first to comment on the jarring juxtaposition of ephemeral, glitzy, often tacky and ever-changing Vegas with a desertous, majestic, inhumane canyon carved from … Continue reading
Posted in Experiences, Music
Tagged Arizona, Bob Dylan, Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie, Nevada, Wendy, When the Deal Goes Down
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Quote for the Day: Montaigne on living in the moment
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
A Love Song for Monday: “When the Deal Goes Down”
I like this song a whole lot. It’s even one of my favorite songs to sing. I enjoy unwinding in the evening by playing it to myself on the piano. I like it because besides for being a sincere and … Continue reading
Rocky Mountain High
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
Posted in Experiences
Tagged Colorado, Estes Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, Sylvie, Wendy
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Wendy or Sylvie?
I can’t get over how much the little girl in this Polaroid resembles another little girl I know:
The View From My (Kitchen) Window
Blogger extraordinaire, Andrew Sullivan, over at The Atlantic posted the view from my window as part of his running posts of views from his readers’ windows. The photo above is one of my wife standing in front of the same … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Sullivan, Harrisonville, The Atlantic, The Daily Dish, Wendy
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A Recap of 2010 in Four Pictures & Four Sentences
Though nearly 1/12th of the year remains, a cousin asked me to send in 3 or 4 photos of my family together with 3 to 4 sentences summarizing our life in the past year for a video collage she is … Continue reading
“In commemoration of the conquest of the air…”
I paid a recent visit to North Carolina’s Outer Banks and the site of the Wright Brothers’ 1903 flights. The Memorial Tower isn’t especially large, but its spirit reminded me somehow of the Tower of Babel. It stands atop Kill … Continue reading
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Tagged Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, Savannah, Sylvie, Wendy, Wright Brothers
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