Category Archives: Homelife

Rural North Carolina

I am contributing to sprawl, my carbon footprint is huge, my actual footprint is huge, we live in the country and I am not a country boy. I wake up on the weekends to the distant sounds of shotgun blasts, somewhere there is a dead deer. My biggest fear when I drive my marathon to [...]

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Projects

I just finished reading this book, Julie and Julia, about this woman who was reaching 30, was in a dead-end job, married, didn’t have any kids, and was miserable. In an effort to find a purpose to her life she decided to cook the entire cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, in one year. [...]

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Saturday – All day in the house alone with two children

Violet was in bed until 9:40 today. I let her stay in that long, she’s got a runny nose and the last one in the house that hasn’t been bitten by the evil bug. It’s trying to bite, but not really latching on, I hope. Colleen’s starting to get busy, so that means my weekends [...]

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