Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Here's the way it'll happen: on a day that will come sooner than I realize, I'll look at my daughter and she'll be walking. Not crawling or shuffling around, but just plain walking. And she'll walk right up to me and ask if she can borrow the car, or can ...
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Saturday, August 14th, 2010
Rather than go to bed when I was exhausted at 930pm like my lovely wife, I decided to stay up and watch Meet John Doe on WNET 13 tonight. It was a thoroughly enjoyable movie with a simple story, compelling characters, excellent writing, a great cast (including Gary Cooper and ...
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Friday, August 6th, 2010
We had a visit from a team of early intervention specialists today. The state of New York offers a free program for children ages birth to three years and who have developmental delays or disabilities. I called for an evaluation into the program the first week we were home and ...
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Thursday, August 5th, 2010
It's been a week of schedules and of deviations from schedules. On Saturday we attended a wedding and little m got her first introduction to the hundreds of Sri Lankans who are her extended family. They approached us throughout the day and into the reception on Saturday night to coo ...
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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
I've been watching way too much television lately. At the end of a long work day, and then spending four hours at home with little m and putting her to bed, then cooking dinner and cleaning up, I'm just too exhausted to think. So M and I wind up on ...
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Sunday, July 25th, 2010
It's been a full week since I've even thought about writing for the blog, longer since I've thought about writing at all. Our little one is 6 months-old, but the energy required to care for her saps all the strength out of me. At the end of the day, the ...
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
I hope I'm a better parent to my daughter than I am to my cat.
All week, I've gone to bed no later than 9pm and have woken at 4am when little m wakes. She goes back to bed shortly thereafter, whereas I lay awake staring at the star balls floating ...
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
I fell into deep slumber around 11pm last night, too tired to even read more than a page of The Brother's Karamazov as the words blended together on the page and in my head. I dreamt of far away lands, a huge city high in the mountains teeming with people, ...
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Sunday, May 9th, 2010
It's amazing how running can make the world seem like such a small place. I'm not talking about realizing how short distances can be when you run between them, or how nice it is to get a knowing wink from another runner when you're on the other side of the ...
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Today's word count: 1769
Total word count: 13,696
I'm nodding off quite a lot while I'm writing. Can't seem to keep my eyes open. I'm not used to too much late night writing, and I've been drinking too much caffeine during the day. It slaughters me at night. Seems to have the ...
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