Category: Storytime

It’s hard to believe that it has been six months since Sarah was born. Sarah, of course, will not really understand that she is “a half” now, but she probably will enjoy the fact that tonight, for the first time, she will eat fruit. (Really she was ready yesterday, since she has tried all the cereals and vegetables now, but… Read more →

Well, I’m going to kill a couple of birds with one stone here and move all the baby picture stuff out of this blog and into a distinct blog of their own. This lets me allow people to follow either my insane rantings, or the pictures, or both, as they prefer. It allows me to replace the static HTML I… Read more →

Well, we haven’t had a baby picture in a while, so… The shirt’s been around for a couple of weeks, the sunglasses are new today. She’s posed in the awesome “high chair” we got from Dave Loop–it just clamps on to the table wherever you are. Read more →

Buying a house didn’t make me feel old Graduating and starting work full-time didn’t make me feel old. Going bald didn’t make me feel old. Turning 30 didn’t make me feel old. The first time I told a story about some hijinks I had pulled, and the story started with “Fifteen years ago…” I didn’t feel old (much). Becoming a… Read more →

I am not dead yet, but it’s been a week of three different blizzards, and a lot of work. Also, my wife turned 30 yesterday, which also took some time. 🙂 Regular posting to resume shortly. Read more →

A couple of years ago I found a list of 99 questions on Jonathan Carroll’s site, which he hadn’t answered, in defiance of typical blog-meme style. Unlike most of these lists, I liked this one, and I’ve kept a copy of the questions around as something to look at “when I get time”. Well, today I get time. Also, since… Read more →

So, I am writing this from a hotel in Fredericton. I was supposed to be home today… We left Ontario yesterday, and we don’t really need to be back until tomorrow (I return to work Wednesday), but we had high hopes for doing the whole trip in two days–in the pre-Sarah days we would normally do a 12-hour leg the… Read more →

So, two days ago it was -30 Celsius. Today there is a storm of doom. Later this week, when we’re supposed to be at Mom’s they are calling for almost -40. Meanwhile, at home in Halifax it’s 11C. Madness. This is what we saw this morning outside our hotel room: Read more →

Blogging will probably be sparse until Dec. 29th or so, as we are currently in the middle of Baby Tour 2004, an eleven day road marathon where we will cover more than 5000 kms in order that everyone can meet Sarah. Next year they can all come to Halifax. Read more →

I ran into the Czeslaw Milosz (that’s “Nobel Laureate Miolsz” to you) poem below, in one of this month’s magazines. I avoided typing it in by finding a copy already on the web along with a reading of the poem in it’s original tongue. Song on the End of the World On the day the world ends A bee circles… Read more →

A followup to the earlier post. Ladies, and Gentlemen, I present yet another photo of Sarah Kathleen McLaren. I’m burning the comedy ones onto a disc that we will use to embarrass her for many, many, years to come. Read more →

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Every now and then I get email from friends who are in far off corners of the world, and I try to take a moment and recognize how amazing some of the things that we of the Net generation take for granted actually are. My high school friend Shawn, who among other things helped me develop theories about the Holy… Read more →