Dear Persephone, It’s finally happened. Your imagination has caught fire, and I’ve been drawn into your fantasy world on several occasions. Granted, you’ve had an…
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Dear Persephone, It’s finally happened. Your imagination has caught fire, and I’ve been drawn into your fantasy world on several occasions. Granted, you’ve had an…
Perhaps I was inspired by all the art we saw yesterday, because when I got home I made a video by pairing a clip I…
I guess the official date is in April but I took my daughter to work yesterday. She was here about five hours, and we had…
Our new camera arrived yesterday afternoon, a Sony DSC-HX5V. This is the first shot, straight out the box, without understanding how anything works. Not bad.…
We decided to celebrate the vernal equinox by planting a tree. We just so happened to have a pomegranate tree which was a gift from…
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Dear Persephone, So much has gone on in the past month. Let’s see — the Saints won the Super Bowl. You’re too young to appreciate…
Dear Persephone, You are twenty-three months old today. Recently your have begun formulating simple sentences, and in the last month I’ve noticed you have begun…
I wasn’t feeling quite right. When Xy offered to take our daughter with her on a shopping expedition I assented. It was just starting to…
Thanks to Sean for turning me on to this animated short. The Waif of Persephone from Nick Cross on Vimeo. At first I was thrown…
My friend Leonardo e-mailed me about this. Our paper carries a Parade magazine like thing during the week called American Perspectives or something like that.…
Dear Persephone, A lot has sure happened in the last month. Most notably, perhaps, we moved to a new house. I know moving can be…
The results of last week’s venous blood test came back Friday, indicating our daughter now has 6.6 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood. That’s…
Dear Persephone, You are twenty months old today, and growing fast. One day recently I picked you up from daycare and I swear I could…
Dear Persephone, Since I see you every day I sometimes don’t notice the incremental changes. You still just look so tiny to me, and even…
This is not quite the “supervillain look” I described last week, but it’s as close as I’m liable to capture on camera.
Dear Persephone, It’s your half-birthday today. You’re one and a half years old. Sometime over the past month you made a big transition. You went…
My world turned upside down Wednesday afternoon based on a single number. That number is driving me crazy. But that number is derived from a…
Sunday we made a quick jaunt to the beach, kind of a last hurrah for our summer. It seems hard to believe but Xy’s vacation…