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12 December 2008 ~ 9 Comments

This is what you can grow in 11 weeks and 6 days

Here is how it happens:
 
OK OK, just kidding. Rob and I weren’t really involved.
Our dear friends Andy and Sarah are HAVING A BABY!!!
It didn’t seem real for awhile, what with them being so far away at the Air Force base in Italy. But there is no denying photographic evidence. I recognize an unborn fetus when [...]

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03 December 2008 ~ 6 Comments

Go ahead

Tell me this isn’t the cutest twosome you’ve ever seen.

Would it be weird to frame a picture of another person’s child and dog in your own house? Because this is exactly the kind of sunshine and gratuitous cuteness I need hanging in my hallway.

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18 November 2008 ~ 9 Comments

It's a parable. Y'know, because their ceremony needed some Jesus.

Several months ago, Ben and Abbie had their first “for better or for worse” moment: they decided to run a marathon together.
They started out strong, running together six days a week along the lake shore, past their new condo and the grassy spot where they got engaged, nothing between them but the Chicago summer sunshine [...]

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13 November 2008 ~ 5 Comments

Lies My Breeder Told Me

Dear President-elect Barack Obama,
I could not be more thrilled by your victory. Our victory. Just knowing that a biracial man — a man raised by a single mother from Kansas and her parents, a man with the middle name “Hussein,” a man who comes from lesser means than I — can actually become president is [...]

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03 November 2008 ~ 3 Comments

This is Halloween

America voted, and, I’m sorry, but Yoda was just not happening.
Yoda was a hilarious costume, to be certain, but given that half my block greets Molly as “Hello there, little piggy!” I just could not resist parading her around the neighborhood in this costume:

Rob and I dressed up as Juno and Paulie Bleeker again, which [...]

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