Twenty-six years ago this very day, the world became a little bigger, and a little brighter. Into its confused but well-meaning arms came a baby girl whose potential for wit, charm, and beauty no one would have a clue. She would make it through a relatively stable, if predictably troubled, childhood with only [...]
It’s not only through superpowered do-gooders that comics can inform our worldview.
I’ve been noncommital about the change for a while, but given the fact that the Blogger commenting system is less a system and more a loosely-collected scrap-heap of incomplete functionality, bound together by a poor user interface, I can’t bear waiting any longer. Really, if I always wanted to write in a total vacuum, [...]
I’ve always held a special reverence for a good pen. A good pen needs to be hefty, substantial, retractable, and refillable: hefty and substantial to engender respect, as it’s well known that bigger is better; and retractable and refillable because it’s well known that complexity is better. I know I’m not alone in [...]
It’s a week later, almost to the hour, and I’m only more confused. I’ve successfully sidestepped most of the endlessly pointless What ifing, though there will always be the penchant for retroactive hope.
I have, however, learned a little more about my little girl in the week since her death. I poured over all [...]
As quickly as she came, she has gone. My baby girl’s heart stopped in the early afternoon of Friday, October 7th, probably in an ambulance—we’re not exactly sure when it happened.
We held her, tightly, for as long as we could. I kissed her forehead, her cheeks, her nose. I held her tightly [...]
Seems Blogger commenting has been broken by my schizophrenic server juggling. It currently takes something on the order of a league before comments show up, and also before they’re e-mailed to me. So, to both of my commenters: be patient, and watch this space. Technological fumbling is due to proceed soon, and [...]
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