Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
Todai-ji — Nara’s Big Buddha Temple. This is how I remember Japan — cool, rainy, quiet, beautiful This intersection beeped all night. Nice view of trains, though. I read recently the stress hormone cortisol impairs the memory-making part of the brain, which explains why I have about eight disjointed memories from the first two months…
The source of our idea. Hurricane Isaac won Cutest Costume at our church’s Fall Festival. We already liked Grace Community Church; now we LOVE it. Ok fine, Isaac co-won with another boy, but still! Recognized cuteness! It’s cold, but the duck is mine. Everyone in costume announced their character and Hurricane Isaac got the most…
The Good Captain decided to stop screaming every time we get in the car at the same time the heat relaxed. This has made for some extremely pleasant weeks. I think I mentioned our new (to us) bike that my parents found at Goodwill, fixed up, then attached a baby seat. Isaac LOVES cruising. It’s…
Cairo, 2003 Captain Goodbaby was chasing the kitties around the house yesterday afternoon. He chattered and babbled in his hopeful pursuit; he followed Mouse into the master bedroom. Sweet (smelling) baby, oils, an ivory box of my great-grandma I waited to hear sounds of his usual circuit: cat hops onto the bed out of reach,…
The Boys in the Mini Maze “He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted—and the man who was not content to…
Happy Birthday, Captain Goodbaby! Isaac’s first birthday was so much more fun than his day of birth. For all involved. Obviously. He opened our presents and we sang Happy Birthday and had champagne cupcakes before Chris had to leave for work. We got the Captain a Zany Zoo, dump truck, airplane t-shirt, and a football….
An approaching storm My parents capped their summer with a long weekend in Destin. Join you? Don’t mind if we do! The good Captain showed his approval by standing on his own—wobbly, briefly—while we sipped coffee and sat on Cheerios on the balcony first thing in the morning. Rain and windy weather does not faze…
