The Angel of Pet Death has hit my house so often, I’m afraid I’m going to have to apply for a zoning change so my backyard can double as a cemetery. I cannot tell you the number of animals we’ve buried back there. No, really. I literally can’t tell you the number, but that’s because [...]
Entries from November 2008
Backyard Burial
August 31st, 2008 · No Comments · A Dude's Guide to Life
Tags: burial·death·Dude's·pets
My Big Girl
August 30th, 2008 · No Comments · A Dude's Guide to Kids, A Dude's Guide to Life, A Dude's Guide to Toddlers
As much as I was ready for summer to end and school to start, I still got run over by future nostalgia roaring through me like a, like a, well, something very fast. I got all teary eyed yesterday when I picked up the four kids from school and I realized that my baby was [...]
Tags: baby·girl·growing up
The Spotlight is Always On
August 29th, 2008 · No Comments · A Dude's Guide to Kids, A Dude's Guide to Life
Thank God there wasn’t a flickr, or a twitter, or a facebook or, really, the internet when I was growing up. I can just imagine the utter humiliation I’d still be enduring to this day because of something I thought was funny at the time and threw out to the public. These things will come [...]

