Certain birthdays of mine have felt numerically significant, like 20, 21, 30, 33⅓, 40, 42, and 50. Today’s another one of those! I turn 57 today, and in honor of the occasion I’d like to tell you a story. This story is true—or, at least, as close to true as I can make it, given the resources available to me. My mother told me much of this tale, with some bits filled in from other places. I’ve cited sources where I have them, but some matters are, as you’ll see, impossible to document. I want to tell you about a...
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So, 2023 Happened
Anyone who has visited here before may be shocked to see that my little blog no longer looks like it’s stuck in the ’90s. I did a little redecorating. Not much. I really just put in the bare minimum of effort to make the site look not entirely dated and embarrassing. It wasn’t worth putting in a lot of time to make something fancy, because my posts here are, shall we say, infrequent at best. For a long time, I’ve written just one or two blog posts per year, mostly in the form of end-of-year check-ins. In recent years, it...
Continue reading...The Obligatory End-of-2022 Post
Last year around this time, I wrote a long post here describing why and how my family and I had moved from San Diego to Canada, and in particular, the challenges our special-needs son created for us. I’ve had a lot of inquiries about how we’re doing now, so an update is in order. tl;dr: We’re fine. It was definitely a good move, which is not to say everything is perfect. And once again I must point out that what follows is unreasonably long; caveat lector. Only a glutton for punishment would actually read all of it, though I’m sure...
Continue reading...How I Spent 2021
In July 2020, and then again in December 2020, I shared some things here about our family’s pandemic struggles, particularly as regards our younger son. Now, a year later, I can not only offer an update on how life is going, but also reveal the details of the major life project I hinted at so long ago. tl;dr We have moved to Canada. We are now living in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan! This is a long story, and if you don’t like long stories or care about the details of my life, then honestly, you can and should stop reading at the...
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