Posts under ‘fatherhood’

Having a White Christmas in Texas is a mixed bag of good and bad. It's good for all the obvious reasons (snow! Christmas! etc!) but bad because, in Texas, snow doesn't just mean snow. It means ice, bad drivers, accidents, road closures, and travel delays and cancellations.
Christmas Eve, Celeste and I didn't quite make it [...]

I've managed to take one item off the list of possible Christmas plans and yet I've added another. So here it is, Christmas Eve, and I'm still making up my mind. Yeah, everything works out this way for me. It's a curse.
I'm not going to my brothers. That amounted to the most work for the [...]

I can tell it's Christmas by the sounds of arguing from within my family. It happens every year. There's always something to go wrong. This year I guess it's my fault. Or rather, I'm the one with the problem. I want to spend Christmas with my family: inherited and chosen. This isn't completely possible, of [...]

It's such a beautiful day out today.
I have a lot to do to get ready for our trip and�a messy house to clean.
I should pick up C from school, take up both straight home, make a quick dinner, and get to the cleaning and packing.
But, at the same time, it seems really unfair to keep [...]

This weekend was packed with fun, the highlight of which was the Texas State Fair on Saturday evening.
I'm not a big "Fair" person. It's not that I don't like it. I can just usually find just as much fun doing my own thing in a less crowded space for less money. And if I bring [...]

There is a certain peace that comes with the understanding that something I was afraid to try wouldn't have worked out anyway. With the sadness of loss comes the satisfaction of knowing.
I'm taking Celeste to the Texas State Fair this weekend. If I go on Friday it'll be a mad dash to pick her up [...]

A few years ago spending time with people that mattered to me and respected me was the most important thing in my life. That hasn't changed. That still is what is most important. We are, after all, very social animals. Being social makes us happy. And, as I've said before, success is happiness.
But the people [...]

It's saddening and maddening to realize that, these days, nearly every frustration I face is merely a byproduct of a time and work based society without control over our own timeline. Our ancestors did not face these stresses. At one point did we become so dependent on progress that we failed to realize that what [...]

Last night I had a disturbing dream. This always seems to happen when I can't find a way to get comfortable in bed.
I was talking on the phone with Emily. Celeste and I had just been some place and Emily was mentioning that there was another place near where we were that served tea that [...]

The trip out wasn't bad at all. Much better than I had feared. I picked Celeste up around 10am and we arrived in Beaumont just before 6pm. She only slept for about 45 minutes of the trip. We stopped for lunch in Corsicana, for an hour or so of hiking in Huntsville, and a handful [...]