Fresh-out-of-high-school DanO Will you please look at that smile? This is continued from ‘a coming of age tale’, which you can read here (or by scrolling down). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And then there was this ‘some boy‘. He was tall. And blonde, and had the most gorgeous blue eyes. The kind of blue eyes that make a [...]
When I think about how much has changed for me in the last 5 years, I have to laugh. My first day of college, 2004 ¬©Papa Rabe And not just because I paid $65 dollars for those jeans from Abercrombie and Fitch that were meant to look old. Look at 18 year old me, rockin’ [...]
This article ran this month in a local Twin Cities magazine. It is about the maternity ward at the hospital where DanO and I are planning to deliver Nugget. And it makes me feel kinda… yuppie. First of all, it is not a ‘Hospital’, it is a, ahem, “Health Campus” where they have “birth experience[s]” [...]
While DanO and I sit here on this beautiful summer evening, him watching the History Channel and the educational programming thereof, me feeling the stabs, jabs and pokes of Nugget, it feels like a good setting for some candor: I paid way too much for something in order to feel good about myself. No, not [...]
