Family Life

The boys have a fixed bedtime ritual, and part of it involves turning off the light. Such a simple step, so intrinsic to going to bed, and yet so fraught with conflict and formal negotiation. On the surface, the agreed-upon procedure is that the boys take turns: tonight Daniel turns off the light, tomorrow night [...]

So I’m stuck in yet another hotel room. I’d been so looking forward to getting home, too. The plan was to arrive home this afternoon, changing planes in Frankfurt along the way. Instead, I got to look out the terminal window as my plane pushed back from the jetway on its way home without me. [...]

After weeks of planning, rescheduling and false starts, I’m finally in Gy?r. Yes, it’s impossible to get that double accent on an English keyboard. It won’t even transfer correctly from the Microsoft Character Map utility. The easiest is to copy and paste from Wikipedia. The gy is pronounced like the g in edge, and the [...]

I’m back to using contacts, about a month after losing one. It was a very routine visit, considering the past six months of tests and trials and experiments. The doctor was pretty optimistic about my general outlook and sent me on my way with instructions to see her in six months. So now I’m in [...]

Contrary to what you might think from this photo, Micah does not like being put in bed. In general, he wants to be held all the time and doesn’t like being put down, and he especially doesn’t like being put down in his crib. Bedtime is often drawn out and painfully noisy, as the baby [...]