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Chowdah

Posted on November 30, 2006

Just for kicks…a photo of the time Sean thought it would be a good idea to buy chowder at the Washington County Fair. Cause, ya know, nothing says great chowder like livestock displays. Hey, Man? Umm, I don’t think that chowder was quite right… Sean, did you get a look at the guy serving it? Doesn’t bode well for the chowder when he uses the back of his hand to wipe from the bottom of his chin and on up to his nose before using the aforementioned hand to ladle the milky substance with chunks into a cup for you. Briar tasted her first bit of soft serve ice cream that day…not exactly a milestone this health nut was excited about, but you only…

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The Ring

Posted on November 30, 2006

A little over 5 years ago I lost a ring. It was a special ring. It had significance far beyond what I had first thought, the same held true for the person who gave it to me. I had no idea at the time- about the person or the ring. I hope I am getting smarter. It scares me that every five years you look back and think, “Man, I was just stupid.” These days I try not to hold things in that I think need to be said, and I try not to say the things that I shouldn’t. As our friend Keith would say, “I cuss and discuss as is necessary.” It’s hard because there is definitely a tendency to revert to…

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Hazy, Fuzzy, Dreamy

Posted on November 29, 2006

There are pictures from my childhood that have a grainy, muted quality. I’m not sure if it’s an issue of the passage of time, the quality of the paper or the lack of training of the photographer. I find them absolutely enchanting. There is an electricity that passes from them, reminding me of the space between Wendy’s home and Peter Pan’s Neverland. These photographs represent a sweet time that seems to exist in another place. Every once in a while I take a picture of the girls with the flash off and I recapture that same feel. To some it may be a bad picture, to me it’s a little bit of Neverland. I see that in today’s picture of a napping Avery.

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We’ve arrived

Posted on November 29, 2006

I always vowed that I would not put a headband and bow thing on a daughter of mine. However making bathtub mohawks is another thing entirely. I am irrationally excited about the possibilities her ever lengthening locks hold for bath time fun. And, treat of all treats, she is a more than willing participant. More, Mommy. Again. Mirror? The look our model is sporting in this picture is a variation on the Ace Venture Pet Detective pompadour and a sleepy Pippi Longstocking.

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"I have a casting update," he tells me.

Posted on November 28, 2006

I clearly remember saying in no uncertain terms in the Who Would You Cast entry that I had/have no interest whatsoever in ever hearing about celebrity crushes or fantasies that my HunkWink might have.So tonight he says, as we are watching Studio 60, with my not really a celebrity crush or fantasy Bradley Whitford aka Josh Lyman aka Danny Tripp, that he has a bit of a recast in the movie of me and that I should do an update. “What’s the update?” I asked innocently. “I think,”he said with a puffy chest and the little ball of his toes cocky walk he gets sometimes, “that I would recast the role of you with Amanda Peet because she is hotter than Jennifer Garner and…

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