Happy Birthday, M.

I was there when he was born. Yes, M is our adopted son, but I was still there when he was born, thanks to the goodwill of his birth parents. Six years ago today at this hour we were all still waiting for him to show up.
This morning, at 5:08 a.m., I was [...]

Ren Fest, 2009

Well, we got lost on the way there. Mostly (entirely) because we didn’t look up where it is, exactly, before embarking. (We go there once a year, and never quite remember where it is, what can I say?) But we eventually arrived, and Fest was its usual self.
By usual self, I mean [...]

Circus Juventas, May 2009

My kids are enrolled in Circus Juventas, a youth performing arts circus. Every summer the more advanced students put on a big show, a la Cirque de Solei, or something similar. But every May the entire school puts on their spring recital. This past week my kids performed for the third year [...]

Circus Juventas: Blue Dress Rehearsal

Blue Dress Rehearsal
We get here at 3:45, and already there are people in the bleachers. The riggers are conducting their tech checks. The house lights are off and we pick our way past coiled ropes and piles of mats to find a seat. Third row up, on an aisle, because we won’t [...]

Five-Inch Onagers

Onagers 09
My kids recently built onagers. It was cool.
Photos follow!

Photoblogging April 2, 2009

I see this around sometimes, the idea being you take pictures of your day and show them to your friends. Your internet friends, that is. Who don’t see the day-to-day of it all. I have two radically different sorts of days in my life — the days I am mostly at home, and the days [...]

Love and adoration

1. My son, M, has been saving his allowance.
M is five and half years old. And M has . . . great difficulty, sometimes, maintaining a train of thought or focusing on a goal. Yet despite this issue, he has saved his money for six weeks to buy the Nerf N-Strike Longshot [...]

2009 Blog for Choice

I have two kids. My partner and I adopted them both, together.
Our son, M, was a local adoption. The story is not a secret in local circles. Many people — friends and family — ended up playing parts in it. We have continuing contact with his birth parents. His adoption [...]

What do you do for your future?

A few weeks back I saw the movie Death Race. I saw it in the theater, with my partner and her other partner. The movie was great fun — just what we expected in terms on auto-duels and grimy men and sexy women. We all liked it (one quibble about the second [...]