Archive for the 'family' Category
More Sam Shots, and a Plug for My Brother
My brother called me this afternoon to tell me he’d finally completed resizing some of his recent photos of Sam, which i hope you’ll all enjoy.
But before you scroll down, let me put in a plug for him. Ray’s photo skills are top-notch, and it is a crying shame that he hasn’t been hired by [...]
Ghost in the House
My son’s ghost is haunting my house and it’s bringing me down.
After Sam goes home, his room generally stays exactly how it was when he left. So for the past two weeks, this enormous green tyrannosaurus model he build has stood silently staring at the wall. I walk by it every morning on my way [...]
Time Out for Fun
Light blogging continues this week with Sam here until Friday. I was out of town all weekend in a cabin by a lake a few miles west of Monticello, NY with Christina’s family, including her Aunt Elizabeth and her little boy Andrew, who’s only a year or so older than Sam.
I guess “cabin” is [...]
Fourth of July Bluegrass
I’m off to Out Among the Stars, the best bluegrass festival in Pennsylvania. It’s a really healthy break from politics, although at some point i’m sure there will be an unavoidable debate about something.
It’s a time to slip out of my skin, and get back to what really matters: family, friends, community, and music. [...]
ANOTHER Philandering Republican Moralist Scold Gets Caught
Like Duncan, I believe that “in a sane country it would be none of my business who Sanford was was having an affair with, and in a sane country gay people would be allowed to get married no matter what people like Sanford think about it.
unlike Josh, I can’t give the guy any real credit. [...]
Help a Brotha?
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Read More..>>Sam Photos from May
Sam came down last Saturday for a quick one-week visit. We had some good times, including a trip to the Please Touch Museum, Sam’s first taste of water ice (pronounced “wooder ice” if you’re from Philly), and visits with Elliott, Franklin and Oscar (Scott, next time we’ll plan better so we get a Charlie [...]
Read More..>>On His Way to the Great Dog House in the Sky
Ray Skwire Scene in Philly
Soon after my parents moved to New Jersey in 1992, my sister and her boyfriend relocated to the area as well, with their two dogs: a pit bull named Desma (where kate comes up with these names I’ll never know: we once had a cat she named “Twinkle”, whose only purpose [...]
Read More..>>Dill Pickles at the Spruce Hill May Fair, Saturday May 9
The Spruce Hill May Fair is an annual event in West Philadelphia that’s always lots of fun. As the flier says, we’ll be playing at 2:00 PM or so. Other bands include:
Adimu Kuumba;
the Oubliette Ensemble;
Unidos de Filadelfia; and
the Cobalt Blues band.
Hope to see you there!
Playing With Fire: Actual Parents React to Potential Supreme Court Decision on Student Strip Searches
As many of you know, the Supreme Court took up the case of school strip searches this week:
he Supreme Court seemed worried Tuesday about tying the hands of school officials looking for drugs and weapons on campus as they wrestled with the appropriateness of a strip-search of a 13-year-old girl accused of having prescription-strength ibuprofen.
Savana [...]
