Maybe you all thought I was kidding when I suggested going grocery shopping together. I can assure you I was not.
I firmly believe that, with or without children, there is a large, often unrecognized, benefit found in participating in everyday activities in a group or social atmosphere. As a society, we often get together for [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2009’
join your village
nurturing conformity
PREFACE
I'd like to preface these words by saying that I don't have all the answers. I don't even pretend to have all the answers. If I speak like I know what I'm talking about, it's only because that's the only way my mind will let me believe it. I write these words both to learn [...]
divorce, death, and the afterlife
(I thought for quite some time about whether I should keep this post under my usual lock and key, filtered to only the select few. In the end, I decided it was okay to be public. The only possibly negative thing it says about Jess is that she gave up and I was willing to [...]
and what about the kitties?!
Many of you seem to be indicating that the best solution to my housing problem is to live with my parents.
I'm beginning to see the light and am slowly starting to accept the possibility and consider it fully. The other option I'm considering is just staying where I am and letting them try to get [...]
this old house
It looks like I'm getting stuck with the house (and the SUV and the credit card debt). So I'm trying to decide how best to work that out and I'm hoping that writing it out and your advice together will help me find the best solution.
(This is really not about why I'm stuck with these [...]
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the state of the daniel
I can't even remember *WHERE* I'm supposed to write any more, so I'm just writing here because I can. I'm not really all that happy with LiveJournal right now and I'm thinking I will find some other place to share my "locked" entries. Not really sure where.
So anyway… this will be sort of freeform stream [...]
it takes a village
I am a strong believer that "it takes a village to raise a child". Beyond that even, I believe it takes a village to be a well functioning, stable human being. With the exception of very recent years relative to the entirety of human history, a life of mostly solitude with only moments of social [...]
