Category Archives: Family

No Tears

I’m not opposed to crying, it’s just not something I do. This isn’t to say that I don’t feel awful, whine, complain or even know moments of transcendent joy and relief.  I just very seldom express such things by leaking … Continue reading

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Are You There, Blog? It’s Me, JJ…

Christ, I knew it had been a while since I’d provided content to this thing but a whole month? What could have kept me away for a whole month? Oh yeah… We call him “Little Hulk.” Other things have come … Continue reading

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Gratitude List

Things we are grateful for this Bastardized Pagan Fertility Day: 1. Family 2. Health 3. Comfy middle-class lifestyle 4. Chocolate 5. Atheism 6. “Scalped” by Jason Aaron and R.M. Guera 7.  ”Walking Dead” by Robert Kirkman and Charles Adlard 8. … Continue reading

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Answering the Call

Sometimes we need to take a leap of faith if we are to be true to the better angels of our nature. Not many people know this about me, but I am, by heredity, a Catholic.  My father was raised … Continue reading

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This the End…

So I just lost an hour of my life to government budget cuts. My wife works (hard!) for the federal government.  She commutes on the DC metro-rail system like a huge percentage of working people in the DC metro area. … Continue reading

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Happy World AIDS Day?

This one sort of snuck up on me.  I wouldn’t have noticed but for the internets and the sign at Starbucks. Quick thoughts:  Number of people I knew personally who have died? Top of my head, four, low for a … Continue reading

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Not Bad for Some Heavy Elements and Water

It began as usual with getting my boy off to school.  Then it was time to go get my daughter her 18-month physical and H1N1 shot.  She handled both well and dazzled the pediatrician with her recitation of Daddy’s facial … Continue reading

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“A Still More Glorious Dawn Awaits”

By now this video has been shared by every smart, sentimental or otherwise nerdy person you know, but I feel the need to pile on one more link because dammit, I’ve watched this thing 20 times already and I still … Continue reading

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