All parents have their priorities. Some are obsessive about teaching the basics of reading and math, and make their child’s life an endless grammar/math quiz. Others don’t give a damn about reading and just want their child to be able to sing. Or dance. Or sit and watch sports/play video games with them. No matter [...]
More Overwhelming Adorableness
People down in DC were completely losing their minds over the snowpocalypse earlier this week, hoarding firearms and dry goods while watching the movie Alive to help themselves make peace with the concept of cannibalism. Having spent 4 years living in Buffalo, NY, I doubt it was really all that impressive. A dusting, we would [...]
Superhero Naptime
Been a while since I posted some Cassie pix/vids, so I thought I’d rectify that quickly, starting with this adorable video. Cassie likes to spread out her blanket on the floor each day and put her toys down for an afternoon nap. Here you can see her starting naptime for her superhero action figures, including [...]
Contest: Who’s the Cutest Baby?
Wait, we already have a winner:
Je ne parle pas Francais tres bien…
Je parle… un peu. Un petite peu.
I know just enough French to tell people my name, and that I don’t speak French very well.
There was a time when I was a little better at it. I got an A- on my French NYS Regents exam, and then took another year of it in college, scoring [...]
Ray of Sunshine
It’s been a rough couple of weeks. Even after my jinxed week, there’s been a huge confluence of stressful things in my life. Two weeks of Jury Duty, copyedits to Desert Spear, finishing Brayan’s Gold (my new young Arlen Messenger novelette), closing on my office studio so Cassie can finally get her own room, rush [...]
Jinxed
Apologies to my mom for all the cursing in this entry, but it’s been an interesting week.
Sunday was the Brooklyn Book Festival, which was pretty fun. The weather was perfect, and the festival drew a sizable crowd. There were kids activities and cool swag and semi-celebrities like that guy who played Vizzini and Grand Negus [...]
Cassie: Year 1
Time flies when you’re sleep-deprived…
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Amateur Filmmaker
Note: The embedded YouTube windows were causing people with older versions of Internet Explorer to experience problems viewing the page, so I have removed them and replaced them with the links below.
Amateur filmmaker # 1
Amateur filmmaker #2
Amateur filmmaker #3