Four years ago today my cat James (named after the character in Ursula K. LeGuin’s Catwings) died at ten years old. Death is an integral part of life and while there isn’t much cause for sadness years and years later, I like to look back over the experiences I had while he was a [...]
It’s been eight years to the day since nineteen Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial jet airliners and crashed them into the Twin Towers of New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Shanksville Pennsylvania, killing 2,993 people. Every American watched in shock and horror that day, an event and subsequent response that has defined my [...]
Last week Rachel and I made the approximately twelve-hour (including stops) journey to the Ooltewah, Tennessee for my best friend Jason’s wedding. This wedding was especially momentous for a number of reasons: my friend of twenty or so years was getting married, I was his best man (as he was in my wedding last year), [...]
Today is Rachel’s birthday, which also means we’ve been married exactly thirteen months. Happy birthday, princess! <3
My little brother Mark turns seventeen today. Seventeen! It doesn’t seem that long ago that the two of us were creating our massive Lego setups in the basement. Yet here we are, growing up and hurtling through life like rockets at escape velocity. For a while the five-year difference between us seemed more like a [...]
On June 8th, Rachel and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary. That year really went by quickly. I couldn’t find any verifiable statistics on how many marriages end within the first year, but we beat all of those odds. Take that!
Charlaine Harris -
Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse #1)
Richard Adams -
Watership Down
Orson Scott Card -
Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)
Paolo Bacigalupi -
The Windup Girl
Bryan Lee O'Malley -
Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour (Scott Pilgrim, #6)
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