While we were using hydrogen peroxide on our couch, Selena mentioned that when she was sick as a kid her parents had her gargle a combination of hydrogen peroxide with salt.

What?!?!

I don’t know what to say about that. In the moment, my only response was, “I am very glad that … [ more ]

When we found out that Sookie came into womanhood primarily based on evidence on the couch, I was pretty sure that that very pricey gift of living room furniture that we got after our wedding only a couple years ago was suddenly unrecoverable.

Selena and I researched online and tried multiple … [ more ]

A month or so ago we came home to find Sookie had left evidence all over the house including on the carpets and couch that she was now a woman.

In retrospect, I could have realized it was coming, if I had given more thought to why she was doing … [ more ]

On August 24th Selena and I will be briefly at the bookstore and then locked in the house taking turns watching the baby and reading the final book of The Hunger Games trilogy…

If you are an avid reader and friends with Selena then she has probably encouraged you to read The … [ more ]

The power went out around 7:20am on Saturday here in Rockville after there was already close to two feet of snow on the ground.

Two neighbors and I shoveled out all the walks for the six houses in our row of townhomes. This provided Sookie a nice labyrinth to run through … [ more ]

I never gave it much thought, but I was told yesterday that a bell will ring a death knell or you can put the final nail in a coffin, but there is no such thing as a death-nail. I appreciate the correction to my tweet:

We have lost power. I think … [ more ]