http://www.ewtetalk.com An amphibious Time Waster Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:50:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Mom." "Yes?" "Mom, do you know what I found yesterday?" "No, what?" "Mom." "What Max?" "Well, yesterday I was outside and you would not believe it. I saw a bee even bigger than this!" He holds up his hands to show. I look. "Oh my goodness. That's huge." "And mom?" "Hmm." "Mom." "I'm listening." "Mom, I wasn't scared of it ... http://www.ewtetalk.com/?p=39 Max and I are eating lunch and he's staring past my shoulder, intent on a fixed point on the wall behind me, chewing. What is it? What's in that little mind of his? He's so much like me, I am finding out. It's odd, to see a young boy who ... http://www.ewtetalk.com/?p=38 Runners wait for Boston Marathon to start. What do you get when you line a twenty-six mile stretch of urban road with sundry folk who have come to scream, hoot, cat call, yell, or otherwise generate whatever loud commotion they can muster, all for the benefit of twenty thousand runners who ... http://www.ewtetalk.com/?p=37 So Max is telling me, "You know, Mom, I just love cats." "Of course." "Because they're my favorite animal, you know." "Certainly they are." "And you know Ethan Waple loves cats too, but not as much as me I think." "I would expect he wouldn't." "And he doesn't have any cats, of course, because his dad ... http://www.ewtetalk.com/?p=36 Every single night of his life since he's acquired sufficient language to do so, my son Max has asked for his bedtime back scratch. Most nights he gets one. Presently he asks in this fashion: "Back scratch?" to which I will reply in the affirmative and our ritual begins. The boy wriggles ... http://www.ewtetalk.com/?p=35 I am thinking about death these days, mortality. It pops into my mind from time to time and I don't shirk away because there is work that needs doing if I am to die, which, I stop to remind myself, I ... http://www.ewtetalk.com/?p=34 My dearest Grandpa, Yesterday was Election Day, which I know you certainly were aware of from over there on the other side, or Heaven, or where ever you find yourself these days. I certainly make no pretense to know, though I feel your presence here in my vicinity regularly, so you ... http://www.ewtetalk.com/?p=33 Tonight when I came home from the gym in our new twenty degree temps, freezing my sorry ass off, the same ass that I just strained a couple of days ago doing who knows what, so that now at night I have ice on my knee (old running injury flared ... http://www.ewtetalk.com/?p=32 At the end of this past summer my nephew Gabe spent the night while my sister and her husband packed up their house, an activity I know too well. This September they moved to Australia just for the heck of it, quitting jobs, selling house/stuff, taking up an adventure. I ... http://www.ewtetalk.com/?p=30 Sorry to spook you, if there should be anyone at all out there who might come back to check this site, but I'm back! Boo! Long busy summer, busy autumn. No excuses. We had Sponge Bob Square Pants and a Black Cat as our family's representatives in a nearby neighborhood as ... http://www.ewtetalk.com/?p=31