Category: life

  • How Old Were They?

    How Old Were They?

    Maybe I should have admonished my kid telling me to shut up, which wouldn’t usually be tolerated, but I (a) did feel bad about interrupting her and (b) was busy trying not to laugh in her face about the whole thing.

  • Overzealous

    Overzealous

    I can’t even be upset – it’s all true: I did go overboard (and it’s a bit oversaturated).

  • Life Finds A Way

    Life Finds A Way

    I recently rewatched the original Jurassic Park, and that movie is still great. You know, I feel like this is even the sort of thing that Ian Malcolm’s character would actually do, especially if he knew he was in a movie.

  • Stalk Photo

    Stalk Photo

    So imagine you’re at work while your spouse is keeping track of your children when an unknown number texts you a photo of one of your children without a clear location-identifying background or other people in it and no context.

  • Absolutely Nothing

    Absolutely Nothing

    The reference is to a line about a “father’s brother’s nephews’ cousin’s former roommate”. Potentially you are your father’s brother’s nephew (or whatever combination of father/mother, brother/sister, nephew/niece that’s applicable to you, unless both your parents were only children), so you can go ahead and add that on to anything to make it sound more…

  • Twin Day

    Twin Day

    The connections forming all the time in that little brain…wild.

  • Watch Your Language

    Watch Your Language

    There’s something amusing about kids pointing out a technicality like this while using this insult against a sibling with whom they share the same mother, and in front of said mother. Because there are some arguably larger linguistic/usage concerns I could bring up here.

  • Sorry, Bugs

    Sorry, Bugs

    Fun fact: what I call a “potato bug” is actually a “terrestial crustacean” in the family armadillidae – or maybe armadillidiidae. Or you can just call it a pill bug or roly poly.

  • Worst Of All

    Worst Of All

    Just in case there is a kid named “Joe” at my local school: it’s a stand-in name that’s nice and short for the speech bubbles, not used because of any relation to that name.

  • Curiouser And Curiouser

    Curiouser And Curiouser

    When this aired in the elementary school assembly it was difficult to hear the mic audio, so I almost missed out on this gem of kid perspective.