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Category Archives: Family
Scenes from a birthday
And an oldie…
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Family
From Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography:
I must therefore submit to this law: I cannot penetrate, cannot reach into the Photograph. I can only sweep it with my glance, like a smooth surface. The Photograph is flat, platitudinous in the true sense of the word, that is what I must acknowledge. [...]
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Annals
It is hard to accept that my parents are aging. When we’ve gone without seeing one another for a sufficient period of time, there have always been little changes, nothing alarming. Lately, I am starting to really see the signals of time: on their hands and their faces, by the expressions they wear, by the [...]
Avant guard kittens
Avant guard kittens: Nico + Alex.
These were taken on the day we brought them home from the animal rescue. It was love at first sight, particularly because it appeared they had been born in a dryer. We were initially told Nico was a male (Nicholas), and Alex a girl (Alexandra), but the error was quickly [...]
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Dad
Me: Remember that time mom asked you to make a salad and you used white grapes with like onion and cucumber and caesar dressing?
Dad: Umm … nope.
Me: Right.
Dad: You know, I’ve gotten so much flack for that over the years. I’m going to write a cookbook someday titled, “Cooking With Grapes.”
Me: It will be a [...]
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Happy birthday Zach !
Happy birthday Zach !
Everyone thinks you’re 2 cool 4 school, but they didn’t know you back when even the swingset would beat you up, and you used Froggy and your other stuffed friends as a proxy to break the ‘no-cursing’ rule (probably, that makes you even cooler).
Lots of love.
Dad: You know, the only magazine that I subscribe to that actually arrives on time is Beer Advocate.
Me: What do you mean?
Dad: It comes in the month that it’s issued. I get the December issue in December. With Smart Money, I get the December issue in November, which means it was probably written in October, [...]
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