Recently I reread John Updike’s I think pretty well-known short story, Separating, in which his fictional couple the Maples, characters Updike wrote many stories about, separate. I guess I wanted to see how much of it rang true for me in my current situation. I suppose some of it did. After all a separating [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 27, 2009
Say hello to the new routine, pretty much the same as the old routine.
Colleen gets Addy to school in the mornings, of course, since Addy stays at the house during the week.
I pick Addy up from school each afternoon and take her back to the house. We do homework and I get dinner started. Depending on what time Colleen gets home, we eat dinner together or Addy and [...]
March 27, 2009
Zombies!
What will I do when the zombies come?
Hmm. Let me see?
Grab my “in the event of zombies” emergency pack, my copy of “The Zombie Survival Guide,” by Max Brooks, and my rifle with scope and all the amo I’ve got and head for the roof of my house. I’ll take out as many as I [...]
March 23, 2009
The Big Talk…and The Even Bigger Talk
Sometimes I wonder if most, if not all, couples have a version of The Big Talk lingering just below the surface. Like an iceberg where there’s all this stuff below the water line and then at some point a kind of relationship global warming sets in and what’s hidden begins to melt and comes bubbling [...]
March 21, 2009
It started with Facebook
Huh. That makes is sound like facebook is the cause for my wife and I deciding to separate. But that’s not the case. Although I’m sure that more than a few, um, strained marraige include a facebook factor or whatever. Nuff said.
I only mean that the beginning of this process (makes it sound like an [...]
March 19, 2009
The New Deal
And by that I do NOT, I repeat DO NOT mean FDR’s New Deal. Nor do I mean Obama’s version of FDR’s New Deal.
I mean, of course, the new deal with this, my blog. Because after a brief hiatus, and certain life-changing events, it seems appropriate that the focus of my blog shift to some [...]
March 19, 2009
Did you miss me?
You did, didn’t you?
It’s okay. You can admit it.
I often create feeling in others that they themselves don’t understand. It can be a terrible burden sometimes, but I’m not one to shirk responsibility, unless of course there’s something good on TV Land. There isn’t right now, is there? Whew. Good.
Anyway. I’m back. At least, I [...]
March 6, 2009
My favorite line from the 'TV Show: The West Wing'
"It's not that I'm right and you're wrong, although I am and you are, but just because I'm better at this than you are." — Toby Ziegler
