the Boy on Top of the World

Yesterday my boss finally went public and announced my resignation. This was a bit of an unusual thing to do, resignations normally go fairly unmarked. {...}

My blog is known to my employer, though I don’t think its regularly read. A bit too domestic to be interesting. Plus, its only known {...}

Pirate Pete is officially eight years old. We had a party of his choosing yesterday. I went in with the boys, and they had a {...}

There was a report yesterday that linked food additives to childhood attention disorders, hyperactivity and aggression. No shit. Any parent with an ounce of sense {...}

A banal divergence today. We have a relatively pest free garden, and work very hard to keep it that way. Moles are dispatched with immediate {...}

Relationships are odd things. Its often the little aggravations that spill over into open angst. I got a very mild hip check last night, one {...}

I haven’t done a business case in a while. My employers do know about my blog and at the beginning I had to agree to {...}

So, all my worries were for naught. My sister arrived Friday afternoon and left this morning, and we had just a marvelous weekend. She and {...}

So my sister arrives today. I am both excited and a little bit worried. The excitement is easy. We haven’t seen each other since my {...}

We live in a difficult moral age. Questions arise that our forebears had no idea of, let answers to. One came up that’s been tugging {...}