Archive for the 'family' Category
Helicopters
Some of these pictures are just for Sam, who visits this page occasionally. 21st century digital boy and all that that…
Apparently there’s a helicopter museum in west chester PA, and my mom and dad took sam there on Friday. Unfortunately, my camera’s charge died after two shots:
Sam had a lot of fun and came home [...]
Read More..>>Human Hamster Ball
I don’t know where they got it (my parents?), but Ray and Dreya have this enormous, inflatable human hamster ball that my nephew Elliott just adores. so when Sam visited their place last week, it was only natural that the two boys would end up rolling around inside it.
You enter through a hole in the [...]
Read More..>>Light Blogging By the Way
Sam is visiting, so it will probably a week of light bloggery.
FYI.
More on Ida
As I said in the post below, Ida defied medical science for years. To her, this must have been just as much a curse as it was a blessing, because after Grandpa Ray died in the late 1970s (early 1980s?), Grandma never took another partner. Much of the rest of her life was spent [...]
Read More..>>“I Continue to Defy Medical Science!”
That was my grandmother Ida Skwire’s, nee Ancelitz, motto for the past 5 years, perhaps even the past ten years. But everyone has their time, and Grandma’s came last night around 11:00 PM. she’d been sick for a long time, and in fact it was almost 6 months ago that the doctors gave [...]
Read More..>>I Hurt My Brain
After yesterday’s ongoing exercise in fact-checking, my brain just isn’t working today. Instead, please visit my brother ray’s photography blog, Seen in Philly. It’s really awesome, and he does great work.
One of these days, he’s going to get hired by a publication that can afford to pay him what he’s worth, which I think [...]
Trip to Montreal, Part 1
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I really haven’t written very much about the adventure I had getting Sam into the US for Christmas.
Dad and I left for Montreal around 6:30 PM on December 23rd, and got on the road about a half hour later due to a stop for gas and a visit to [...]
HOUSE DEMOCRATS: ALL DAY SUCKERS
Lollipop
All-day sucker
The Bags, Believer
You’re a sucker
Bought a load of crap
You’re a sucker
Flowing from the tap
You’re a sucker
Yeah you swallowed it whole
You’re a sucker
Ran it up the flagpole
Don’t wanna share my world with a bunch of fools
As of this writing, Bob Brady’s office has confirmed that, in acquiescence to GOP hissy-fits and at Obama’s behest, the [...]
SHAME!!! DEMOCRATS TO SCREW THE POOR ON FAMILY PLANNING
Cross-posted atOxdown Gazette/ Firedoglake
Talk about getting royally fucked! The Democrats want to knuckle under to the GOP on family planning funding in the stimulus:
WASHINGTON – House Democrats are likely to jettison family planning funds for the low-income from an $825 billion economic stimulus bill, officials said late Monday, following a personal appeal from President Barack [...]
The US State Department is Profoundly Anti-Family
As most of my readers know, I have a son who lives in Canada with his mom. As he’s grown older, we’ve been working to establish dual citizenship for him.
Unfortunately, dual citizenship for a child born out of wedlock is very difficult. In fact, it is a royal clusterfuck of epic proportions.
This [...]
