Group(on)ie

Posted on September 30, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | 16 Comments

I have a problem. (Well, I have many problems, but this is just one I’m choosing to highlight today.) I think I may be a Serial Fitness Groupon Hoarder. I don’t think I need to explain how Groupon (or Living Social, Deal Pop, etc.) works, do I? Basically, my in-box is flooded every morning with [...]

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The age of wonder

Posted on September 28, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | 6 Comments

On Saturday, we took Rowan to Woodland Park Zoo for the first time. I have mixed feelings about zoos. I wrote about it once, long before I had a kid, but basically, the thought of animals being kept in captivity is unsettling. Certainly, some zoos are better than others, allowing animals to roam as freely [...]

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All these (ridiculous) things that I’ve done

Posted on September 23, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | 13 Comments

Somehow it came up in conversation a couple weeks ago with close colleagues that more than 10 years ago, when I was in college, I made out with the drummer of a then-popular rock band. I once wrote about it, and I don’t feel like rehashing the details (because truly, it’s not that exciting), but [...]

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A day in the life

Posted on September 22, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | 7 Comments

Roth is working nights this week (long story, but thankfully it’s only for one week, he has assured me), which means essentially, I’m a single parent this week. That sounds sort of melodramatic, but truly, Roth is only seeing Rowan a total of like 30 minutes per day, in the mornings before we leave for [...]

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Now the sky could be blue, I don’t mind, without you it’s a waste of time

Posted on September 20, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | 7 Comments

The weather was supposed to be awful all weekend, and for the most part, it was. But, there was this short window of time early Saturday afternoon, when the clouds parted and the sun shone, and we took full advantage of every warm second amidst ripe-for-the-picking blueberry fields. What a fantastic (and cheap!) way to [...]

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Top Five Friday: Most Memorable Concerts

Posted on September 17, 2010 | Category: Top Five Friday | 14 Comments

I’ve been to a lot of concerts in the last decade or so. For a few years in the middle there, Roth and I managed to see almost every band or musical act that we wanted to. It was certainly a perk when we first moved to Seattle, whereas before we’d have to travel four [...]

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My beautiful boy

Posted on September 15, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | 6 Comments

Do you think it’s humanly possible for a parent to NOT think their own child is the most beautiful creature on the planet? I ask myself this every time I stare at a photo of my son. I mean, of course I think he’s cute. Of course Roth thinks he’s cute, too. We’re biologically programmed [...]

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Digital doppelgänger

Posted on September 10, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | 5 Comments

Roth is playing a new game on the Xbox called LIMBO. As opposed to all the other loud and obnoxious first-person shooter-types he typically plays, I actually don’t mind LIMBO. There is no hard rock soundtrack, no booming explosions, no frenetic graphics. In fact, the design is quite subtle and artistic, a shadowed land cloaked [...]

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I’m all up on you, ‘cuz you representin’ California

Posted on September 1, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | 12 Comments

When I booked our flights to California for the last full week in August, I was unwittingly booking summer’s last hurrah, it seems. Never was that more evident than the day after we returned to Seattle when the rains returned as well. Going back to work on Monday after nine full days off, half of [...]

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