Tag: family

Hat tip to Mocha Dad. His post partially inspired this post. One day in early 2005 I received a strange knock on our front door. The knock itself wasn’t nearly as strange as either the messenger or the message. The person at the door was a Tacoma Police Department chaplain, and as it turned out,…

Things have been pretty quiet on the blog the past couple of weeks as we approached the birth. Though delayed, birth there was, and this is the story. Because we were past due, tests were ordered by our midwives on Friday to check on the baby. (At that point, we were 9 days past due).…

The outpouring of support has been nothing short of amazing. I’m still a little short, but because of timing, had to make the call. This entire couple of weeks has been an exercise in faith, so it fits. So I will be leaving tomorrow morning, connecting in DC, and continuing to Hartford. Will be posting…

For those that haven’t read the account of my dad’s passing, it is here. The funeral is going to be held Saturday at noon. Today being Thursday, there may be time for me to attend if I can raise the money for the flight. With being self-employed and trying to grow my business in this…

A little background, otherwise very little of this post will make sense. My biological mom and dad divorced when I was 2. Mom moved my older sister and me across the country from CT to where she grew up, MT. When I was 5, mom remarried, and soon after my stepdad adopted us. My stepdad…

On Saturday, JoAnn wrote about the finding of my virtual twin on twitter. As strange and cool as that was, it has been outdone: I found my long-lost half-sister on Facebook. I’d been looking on and off for a while, hoping she’d eventually pop up. And she did. Yeah, there is a long story there,…

I assume this is something few would think about doing, and fewer still would do. But that is exactly what we did Saturday night when we attended the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra’s Sounds of the Season . [As an slight aside, the conductor, Harvey Felder, is by far the most entertaining conductor I’ve watched…]. There was…