Dealing

So, here’s the deal about my latest “quest,” which is to find a beach house or a condo or phone booth or something. My wife is teaching summer school, and that ends June 30. So we thought we would take a week off sometime in July and go visit a beach somewhere. Probably drive (I […]

Easter story

One of many. And this happened about five minutes ago. My eldest was a baby when he came to live with us. Among the charges against his mom was “neglectful supervision” and “risk of neglect.” He had a couple of visits with his mom after he came to live with us (he was still a […]

Seen and heard

“Dale, dale, dale, no perdas el tino, porque si lo perdes, pierdes el camino. Esta piñata es de muchas mañas, sólo contiene naranjas y cañas.” Hit, hit, hit. Don’t lose your aim, Because if you lose, you lose the road. This piñata is much manna, only contains oranges and sugar cane. At my nephew’s second […]