Flip Flops
February 23, 2009It happened yesterday evening – I put on my flip-flops for the first time since winter began. Screw Punxsutawney Phil, the Weather Channel and the…
Category: family
An Adoption – Chapter 1 – Nixon
December 23, 2008This morning my son performed his first 1/2 “Nixon”. He started performing Nixons only a few days ago. The Nixon replaced “Fisticuffs” as his primary…
An Adoption – Chapter 2 – Chinese Food, Sufi Abstinence and Sperm Counts
December 23, 2008Our honeymoon included a stop in Ann Arbor Michigan where Terry would complete a 3 year program in Sufi Spiritual Healing. What is Sufi Spiritual…
Some of the events you’re about to read are gruesome, terrifying and shocking. Most of them are pretty innocuous, at least at first blush. The…
An Adoption – Chapter 4 – Some Other Dudes Sperm
December 23, 2008The IUI’s weren’t working. The fear that Terry might not be able to get pregnant even under the best circumstances began to creep into our…
An Adoption – Chapter 5 – The Most Expensive Sex Someone Else Had
December 23, 2008My wife has an invisible third arm, its called Google. Whenever someone mentions a topic she’s not fully informed about – out pops the laptop!…
An Adoption – Chapter 6 – Adopt-On-An-Interstate Freeway
December 23, 2008Once we had settled on domestic adoption, it was time to find an agency to work with. If you’ve got a lot of money, this…
An Adoption – Epilogue – Tadgs Day In Court
December 23, 2008American adoption proceedings are a strange thing. They contain vestiges of legal lessons long ago learned. One is, you must wait and see how things…