When I was a child everything seemed so wondrously new and waiting to be discovered. Even if had already been discovered by someone else, what mattered was that I hadn’t yet experienced it. As the years passed and I delighted in each discovery, I knew one day the well would begin to lower each time I partook of it. The new and novel would still come but it would require much more effort and patience.…
Work has been uninspiring to me as of late. Hints of dissatisfaction of the general state of the world was creeping into my own professional life. I can only say that I felt un-tethered and adrift. I mired myself in gloom and uncertainty of the world. If I could’ve observed myself from a different vantage, I would’ve found the sight sad and unflattering. Then just a few days ago, I received an e-mail about an…
If anyone has come to this website and has been reading my drivel, you’ll have noticed my entries have been sparse this past year. It entirely has everything to do with a child and all the upkeep said child requires. Maybe not entirely, but a very large portion of it. Professionally speaking, it has been a good year. I’m not un-pleased with how things have turned out, though I think it could have been more…
So, it’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything. It’s not been for lack of trying, but life with a child can occupy a lot of time. I’m not complaining. Our son is something unique to us. People say he looks a lot like me. I don’t know if they tell me this as a compliment or as a complete surprise. Since his arrival I’ve taken it for granted that he has to have some resemblance…
It’s been an usually hectic year and I haven’t had much free time available to contemplate it all. Our son has grown like weed. Still hasn’t uttered a comprehensible word. My wife’s worried about this, but I’m not. Like all things in life, it’ll come in due course. I imagine some time next year, he’ll be twittering like a bird with all the newly discovered words filling his head. My wife’s worries in this matter…