The god of pain descended mid November to distribute summons throughout the state of Maryland. Letters for jury duty passed from door to door, a dark guardian of civic duty, binding citizens throughout the entire month of December to hours sitting, waiting. Last Monday I spent my morning at the courthouse, squeezed close to strangers, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘family’
Judge, Jury, and Executioner . . . Please!
Posted in Stumbling Sober, tagged books, court, family, government, humor, jury, life, relaxation on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Party like a Rock Star
Posted in Malarchy, tagged concerts, family, games, life, Miley Cyrus, movies, reviews, shows, video games, Zombieland, zombies on November 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Indulged any residual All Hallow’s Eve hunger for the strange and weird with a second helping of ZombieLand tonight in the bowels of our nation’s capital. Meanwhile Mom, Kate, Bree and our cousin Kathleen learned about friendship, celebrity, and sequined hot pants at the Miley Cyrus concert next door. Having carted my group of screaming [...]
Conversations Overheard While Carpooling Sophmores
Posted in Malarchy, tagged American cars, automobiles, brothers, car companies, cars, Chevy, commercials, family, Ford, hippos, humor, Japanese cars, life, midgets on October 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
“Hey, Murph, have you seen it?” Kevin asked jumping into the car, his shirt soaked in sweat and dirt by hours on the football field. I unconsciously open the windows, allowing his not-so-fresh scent some other means of escape than through my lungs. His friend Joe dives into the back seat. His gear is tossed [...]
West Coastin’: Daring Disney
Posted in Dasad Adventures, Wanderings, tagged Alice, awkward game, blogs, California, castle, Cheshire Cat, dares, Disney, Disneyland, Disneyworld, family, Florida, food, haunted mansion, humor, Indiana Jones, Julie and Julia, life, movies, rocks, theme parks, Tower of Terror, travel on October 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dasad, I discovered had never experienced the beautiful chaos that is the Disney theme parks. This realization shocked me a little, as Dad has our yearly exodus to Florida planned and booked at least a year in advance (Typically, the week after returning to Maryland, growls are heard, demanding our schedules for next summer). Visiting [...]
West Coastin’:Epilogue
Posted in Dasad Adventures, Stumbling Sober, tagged adventure, family, humor, time, travel on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So I decided to write the epilogue to this particular story first. Travel narratives in many ways usurp any and all attempts at suspense if the writer has indeed survived to relay the tale. He or she went off somewhere else and survived, not having been eaten by alligators, sharks, or cannibals. Said author now [...]
A Minor Hazard
Posted in Stumbling Sober, tagged bacon, blame, clouds, communication, distractions, family, fire, life, not my fault, siblings, smoke on July 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Communication is an important tool in most families. Though rarely perfected, peaceful coexistence depends upon one’s willingness to express and understand feelings, needs, or instructions. Imperfectly applied, communication might lead to undesired results such as the kitchen fire of July 12, 2009 which after some hastily issued orders concerning the bacon sizzling on the stove [...]
Gibber-Jabber
Posted in Wanderings, tagged auras, babysitting, candy, chakra, children, communication, dinosaurs, family, Hilton Head Island, humor, Ice Age, insults, kids, language, mass, parenthood, parents, sea foam, speech, Tower of Babel, travel, vacation, writing on July 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The fallout from the whole Tower of Babel debacle left man and his children rather befuddled. As the dust settled, humanity severed all connection to those that did not speak and therefore think like themselves, dispersing the human population into nations, cultures, and warring soccer communities. Of course, the children are the hardest hit.
Growing Pains
Posted in Malarchy, tagged brothers, dogs, families, family, Hollywood Video, humor, life, rules, scrapbooks, siblings, sisters, teenagers, video rentals, writing on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today is Bree’s birthday, and she is ensuring that the whole family does not forget. Thirteen years old. An unlucky number for even the most loving parent or older brother. For marking the threshold into the teenage years, my baby sister, the youngest of my siblings has emerged into the second-most-difficult epoch of her life [...]
Studies in Stereotypes: Trekkies
Posted in Dasad Adventures, Wanderings, tagged arcades, Capt. Kirk, Capt. Picard, family, geek, geekdom, geeks, humor, life, movies, Mr. Spock, Star Trek, stereotype on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Common practice in today’s world takes great joy in reproofing stereotypes. Artists in particular relish breaking down the barriers that all too often pigeonhole groups of individuals with various – and often untrue – adjectives: stupid, violent, awkward, materialistic. One could hardly dispute the honesty and justice of such protests, expounding the potential of each [...]
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