Says Jessica last night, “Tomorrow’s a very special day, Mr Tommy!”
I responded, “Tommy doesn’t understand birthdays, honey.” Of course, just wait until his first birthday next February, and I’ll bet he understands that!

So, I stayed home this weekend instead of heading out by myself to an SCA event out of state. It was […]

I was pretty well set for a full weekend.  Though I didn’t have today off, I was going to make the long trip to North Carolina for an SCA fighting event with a good friend.  I’d put in a couple of extra hours here and there, and had arranged things so I could leave the […]

This past week found me off from work and deeply entrenched in the abyss of my basement. I say it that way, because nearly half of the entire unfinished basement was filled with boxes that hadn’t been unpacked in four years - since we moved in. Our town has a semi-annual “clean-up” trash […]

Recently, Dictionary.com’s word of the day was “aesthete”:
aesthete \ES-theet\, noun: One having or affecting great sensitivity to beauty, as in art or nature.

I can only assume that this word is complimentary. As such, the first person I think of as affecting sensitivity to beauty is my wife. After she came […]