Topic: experiences

If you are writing a book and interacting with people who are participating in the experiences that will make up the book is it disingenuous not to tell them? I have found I approach situations differently when I think they may end up in the book. I tend to observe more, participate less, and be more critical than usual. In increasing order of weirdness here are some Ferrari related...

Our raccoon piece about a week back got a former Portlander, now in Texas, talking on his own blog about his own raccoon experiences in the Rose City. Now, in his followup comments to his blog post, he's written some thought-provoking words about Portlandia generally. You may disagree with the sentiments expressed, but you must admit the fellow does have a way with words: A few months back, I...

Many of children go through a biting phase at some point. An urbanMama emails her situation and asks whether anyone else has experiences to share:My 3yo daughter just started biting her 15mo brother. (They are almost the same size so she used to just push him away but now there's only 4" and 4lbs separating the 2 of them.) It usually happens because she gets frustrated because he's in her face...

Sorry for the lack of posts this week. You could assume that it was due to summer camp for my kids of Willamette Academy starting, but I would liked to have posted some of those experiences. Unfortunately the real reason is that I have been crushed by a series of migraines. As my migraines usually cause me to lose sight in my left eye, as well as temporarily paralyze my left side of my body before...

I am a software engineer by day. Other times, I do other stuff. This blog is my collection of both sets of experiences.