Archive for the 'parenting' Category
Sam’s October Visit
Sam went home Monday afternoon, and the weather was perfectly suited to my mood: frigid, humid air that clenched up every muscle in my body until I ached to the bone. It took a bowl of pho and a steaming hot shower to get my internal temperature up to normal, which helped fight off the [...]
Read More..>>First Day of School
There’s really not much to tell, as I was only there for a half hour or less. So here are a couple of pictures to tide you, and more directly, me, over until the next visit.
This was taken at the school yard before everyone began lining up…
…and this one was taken right [...]
Read More..>>Love Hurts
Read More..>>It Has Been a Tough Week.
As I’ve written earlier this week, it’s really hard to spend 5 months without an extended visit with my guy, and driving up for his first day of school where I’ll get about a half hour of time with him makes it all the harder.
I just found out today my aunt is dying at the [...]
Deep Thought
Driving 20 hours for a half-hour of time with my son is pathetic.
I suppose I could fly, but it would cost even more after I get done with car rental and everything else.
After the Storm
I went down to New Jersey this weekend with my brother and his family to get a little R&R and escape from the city. I have a legendarily bad back that goes out at least 6 times a year (it’s an old injury I sustained when I was 14 and trying to get on [...]
Read More..>>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 [...]
Summer Doldrums
I haven’t been posting ton of material to the blog lately.
It’s not like there’s nothing to write about, but I have the summer doldrums and it’s a real effort even to get a brief update like this pathetic little post out.
I’m hoping to get back on my A game pretty soon: the health [...]
Wind Gap 2009
This is the last picture my camera took before it died. It’s the interior of the Subaru, including Sam, just before we left for the incredibly rainy Wind Gap Bluegrass Festival.
This is from my next-to-last visit. I don’t really have ANY shots from the July visit (the last time I will see my [...]
The Other Rotten Thing…
…that happens when I slip into the post-Sam low-level depression is that my ability to think goes out the window for a week or more.
So right now I’m at work, trying to move forward on several grants, and my mind just isn’t there. I’m not obsessing over Sam or sitting here welling up with [...]
