Published writer, compulsive reader, Old School Whovian, Match Game enthusiast, NKOTB fan, data hoarder, and - surprisingly, given that list - married with four kids. Welcome to my take on life, fatherhood, entertainment, and whatever strikes my fancy. Enjoy!
Sunday, August 2, 2015
Junie's 8th Birthday - her gifts
Junie - Birthday Prep (cont.)
More prep-work. Even the kids giggled over the sign reading "Troll Balls"
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Birthday Prep
The preparation for LK's 8th birthday sleepover yesterday. Lisa made the bookmarks with a design off the net, contact paper, string, and a hole-puncher.
A Game
90 years ago today President Warren G. Harding died in office, the second of four U.S. Presidents to do so in the 20th century. Name the other three Grace, *without* consulting the web, and we'll talk about that library fine.
Go Set a Watchman
I started and finished this "sequel" to To Kill a Mockingbird " in the last few hours. It was much better than the reviews indicated, largely because the reviewers seemed appalled that Atticus Finch was rendered into a flawed mortal.
But that's the point of the book; an adult Scout moving past the narrow window in which she viewed her world as a child. I thought the writing was strong as well, barring all the ethical debates near the end.
I put sequel in quotes, not in protest to its publication, but because the case at the center of Mockingbird is different in this telling, making it almost a different fictional universe.
Recommended.
Saturday, August 1, 2015
Smiley - Track
Smiley is running a leg of the relay race here on the last day of track class (that's what the baton passing race is called, right?) Great weather for it.
update: Smiley is now doing the long jump on the other end of the track. Neat to watch. edit: he at first refused, saying he didn't want to get sand in his shoes lol
@Riverside High School
yEEsss!
Guess what soon-to-be 8 year old just passed her Level One swimming test *with two weeks left to go in the class*! Whoo-hoo! Way to go LK!
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