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Don’t Open Until Christmas

Ed — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:42:28 +0000

Took the kids to Inniswood today to have their pictures taken for our Christmas Cards. Yeah, we’re those people. share. peace.

The Great Pumpkin Mystery Exposed

Ed — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:36:18 +0000

“I think I know why the Great Pumpkin never showed up,” Zoë offered over her breakfast bagel clearly haven given the mystery a great deal of thought. Our Halloween festivities are a bit lagging this year as it wasn’t until Sunday night that we broke out the Charlie Brown dvds. Watching Good Ol’ Chuck officially [...]

Not Just Another Sunday in June

Ed — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 05:01:07 +0000

In the interest of being more environmentally friendly, this post contains no less than 98% recycled content. Father’s day. Dad’s all across the country will be heading out to golf courses and ball parks, lakes and rivers, or just to the living room to veg out in the Lazy Boy (well, the lucky ones have [...]

Spiders, Seals, Petrolatum, Gingerbread Houses and Blood–Oh, and Santa Sucks!

Ed — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:24:58 +0000

You suck, Santa!! Seriously, what is wrong with you? My wife hit me last night. Hard. Sucker punched really, for I was sound asleep. She used a book. Check that. She used a Bible. She said it was a spider and it was coming towards her. I asked her if it was coming towards her [...]

But Stuffed Pandas….That’s a Whole Different Thing

Ed — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:08:38 +0000

Why doesn’t Cinnamon get to drive? Are you serious? Dad, he’s a cat. Cat’s don’t know how to drive. You’re right. What was I thinking? Zander felt that our new kitten, Cinnamon, needed a little bit of chill time with Big Dad Panda Bear. (That’s honestly the name he gave to the bear–he calls it [...]

Andy–Revisited. A Father’s Day Repost

Ed — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:31:00 +0000

Father's day. Dad's all across the country will be heading out to the golf courses and ball parks, lakes and rivers, or just to the living room to veg out in the Lazy Boy with a frosty adult beverage sporting that new paisley necktie because--well it's dad's day and that's what dads get to do on their day, right? I've got other things that need tendin' cause well, I just do. So I thought I'd repost from last year my thoughts on Father's Day. I think it still rings pretty true and it captures what I really feel about Father's Day.

Happy Father's Day. (originally posted June 16, 2007--Thanks for the Warning, Andy)

Warhol once said, "In the future, everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes." I've spent my entire life trying to figure out how I was going to leave my mark, my signature. How will the world know that I was here? What will be the Legacy of Ed? I'm nominal, at best when it comes to sports. I can barely hold a tune in a bucket. I don't play an instrument. I don't have a best selling novel floating around in my head. Forget business ideas, and I'm not really all that altruistic, so servitude is out.

Six years ago this January, I finally got it. I realized in a single moment on a snowy winter day, how I would be shaping the future, changing the world around me. My epiphany.

January 18, 2001 at 3:54pm I became a father.

"And the clouds parted to cast a true shadow." My idiotic quest for personal glorification died that day as I ...

It’ll Be Earth Day Tomorrow, Too

Ed — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:31:00 +0000

Intended to inspire an awareness of and an appreciation for the Earth's environment, Earth Day is celebrated today at it has been each April for the past thirty eight years. A grassroots campaign initiated back then served as a wake up call of sorts to help people to realize the impact of our actions on the planet and give the environment a national spotlight. A movement was born and today Earth Day is celebrated not only in America but in countries all over the world. But are we really doing right by our dear Mother ...

The wisdom of Linus…..

Ed — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:00:00 +0000

It's easy to become so totally absorbed in the holiday season that we lose focus, the ability to just step back for a minute or two and ask ourselves why are we doing all of this? Bows, ribbons, packages, cards, lights, trees, family get togethers, Christmas carols and music programs.......Really? What's our motivation? What's it all about?

Thank you, Linus Van Pelt.

God Bless and Merry Christmas to you and yours from me and mine. Here's to a year of promise, prosperity and peace.

See ya in January!

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The downward spiral…..

Ed — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:00:00 +0000

If you, like me, fear you may have peaked just a tad too early this Christmas season I offer this. Levity. For me, it seems to put things back into perspective. Brings things into focus. Enjoy. And remember, there's only six days left.

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The Christmas Gala…..

Ed — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:28:00 +0000

There are many who prepare for December all year long, starting December 26th of the previous year with the after Christmas and return sales, picking up odds and ends on weekends throughout the year, diligently socking away an extra ten or twenty here and there for the Christmas fund. For these careful planners, come December it's all over save the wrapping. I hate these people! The litany of items on my list of things to get done before Christmas for some odd reason does not seem to be growing appreciably smaller. Oh, I've been able ...

What are you thinking…..

Ed — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:23:00 +0000

On a typical day I am barraged with countless questions, some pertinent others totally insignificant, statements, some declarative, some observational some hypothetical, sounds, ticks, screams, whispers and silences....and that's just from the voices in my own head. Couple that with the voices of five children, only three of whom actually possess any understandable form of the English language. The twins, God bless them, understand language they just don't use it. I spend quite a bit of each day engaged in a bizarre game of charades in an attempt to decipher their impassioned yet incomprehesible mutterings. ...

the ChristmasCast…….

Ed — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:00:00 +0000

OK. So it's not the quintessential Christmas Playlist.

But unless your heart is two sizes too small.....it's sure to brighten your Christmas spirits.

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I’m not 15 anymore…..

Ed — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:40:00 +0000

Thanksgiving 2007 and the morning after--or the way I remember it.

The alarm sounded at 7:00am. The pain started at 7:00am and 10 seconds. "My God, what have I done? Why on Earth would I do that? What was I thinking?!" My head was pounding. Every ounce of my body was in pain. I literally had to will myself to move from the bed to the bathroom just 15 feet away. Seriously, I could actually feel the synapses relaying the messages to the muscle fibers in my legs forcing ...

With pomp and parade…..

Ed — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 03:01:00 +0000

“….solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.”–John Adams in a letter to his wife dated July 3, 1776. It’s just after 11:00pm and I feel it safe to say we can count another holiday as having [...]

Easter….Check. Now Moving on…..

Ed — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:15:00 +0000

Only 258 shopping days until Christmas. Now that Easter can officially be counted as over, it’s as good a time as any to shift our focus. The wonderful promise of Easter morning just two days past still has my kids buzzing. The morning was filled praises and singing of hymns all proclaiming the joyous return [...]