Tag: kids
member name: señoritafish (oxyjulis californica)
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October 20, 2007 05:01 PM EDT --
Hi mom. It's hit me several times today, that it's your birthday. You would have been 69. I'm sure if you were still here, I'd be arguing with you about something, as much as John argues . . .
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May 28, 2009 01:46 PM EDT --
If you see this through Comment Speedway or ViewMasters - I ask that you please don't leave a generic comment. While normally I don't mind "Thanks for sharing," I'd really like a little more feedback . . .
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January 28, 2008 04:29 PM EST --
I belonged to a community called Daily Paragraph last year, that gave prompts for just a little writing a day; it was kind of fun for a while until it died. Thought I'd post a few of my responses: . . .
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June 10, 2008 02:30 AM EDT --
"Mom, what do you look like if you're tow-headed?"
"Well, it means you have really light-blond hair. If your friend Connor's . . .
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October 28, 2008 07:36 PM EDT --
(Reposting as this is something put up shortly after I joined two years ago - but it's that time of year, when it comes to mind...)
October is kind of a bittersweet month for . . .
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November 12, 2008 02:05 AM EST --
My uncle and dad ...
This was taken in 1942 - my father, on the right, quit high school to join the Navy after Pearl Harbor. He was seventeen. My uncle John, two years older, was . . .
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October 04, 2007 12:25 AM EDT --
The little cardboard sleeve on my half-drunk cup of Starbuck's* has slipped down, finally allowing me to read the quote plastered on the side of it. Some of these make me laugh, some make me . . .
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December 23, 2007 10:15 PM EST --
My kids and I went outside just after sunset, because of a beautiful pink sky in the west, and hung out in the front yard for awhile, watching the stars slowly come out. Sometimes we'd notice a tiny . . .
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July 20, 2009 06:07 PM EDT --
For ty years ago? I was six, we had only shortly before moved into this house in this neighborhood. I was going to start second grade at a new school in a couple of months - strangely enough, at the one . . .
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May 12, 2008 04:20 PM EDT --
Since National Train Day was Saturday, and the colored train contest is still going on, I thought I'd repost our visit to a historic train on Halloween Day (also my son Gareth's birthday), . . .
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October 23, 2007 03:44 AM EDT --
My sinuses sting and my eyes burn slightly. Once again, southern California burns to the ground, at least in the eyes of the rest of the nation. The fire in Malibu started almost instantly, . . .
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September 04, 2008 05:52 PM EDT --
This past August, Runsamuck and I decided to take the kids on their long overdue first real camping trip. Granted, the fry have been tagging along with their grandmother for a number of years. . . .
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July 16, 2009 03:34 PM EDT --
In anticipation of the upcoming 40th anniversay of the first moon landing, I read about this event the night before in a blog - Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter, Gemini and Apollo astronaut Thomas . . .
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August 12, 2008 11:58 PM EDT --
I'll tell you right now I'm not a hugely experienced geocacher. I only started in January; I've been aware of it for several years (I think I first read about it in Wil Wheaton's . . .
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August 25, 2008 01:31 PM EDT --
I've been wanting to visit Rancho Los Alamitos Historical Ranch and Gardens for a long time. It's kind of one of those out of sight, out of mind things because, although it's . . .
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