Ken Newquist Almost two years after 9/11, it’s become commonplace to see American flags flying. You can see them in front of houses, on overpasses, in cars and soaring over office buildings. For the most part, they are the good old Stars and Stripes, with 13 stripes and 50 stars representing our United States as it is … Read more
Madison has seen the face of the enemy, and it is pink. Our five-year-old Yellow Labrador was freaked out when Sue began talking to her belly a few months ago, and she started sulking when she saw us loading Sue’s overnight bag into the Cherokee in anticipation of her impending labor (Mad Dog knows that … Read more
We’ve got four weeks until Sue’s due date on March 21. One week until she’s term. One week until Lamaze is over. Yes folks, labor is definitely starting to loom rather large on the horizon.
Exactly how large became apparent last night at Lamaze, and it had nothing to do with the 30-minute video we watched of three women giving birth. No, what really drove it home for me was the fact that we’d lost about four couples from our class, not to snow, lack of interest, or schedule conflicts but to … birth.
The Romantic heart of a hero beats even stronger in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, a sorcerous sequel that offers darker evils and greater heroics than the original. Based on the book of the same name, the new Harry Potter film picks up where the first one left off. Harry has completed his … Read more
I watched High Fidelity the other night with my wife. It’s a movie in which the main character, played by John Cusak, is a music geek in love with vinyl. The movie’s peppered with his top five lists (both of music and break-ups) and it got me thinking about my own top five lists with … Read more
What’s the one thing that can get motorists’ minds off the sting of high gas prices? That’s right — the Attack of the Killer HIV Needle! An email that I first saw in the Summer of 2000 alleges that some whacko with HIV positive blood is sticking him/herself with needles, and then “affixing” these needles … Read more
Those lunatic gang initiates are at it again. They started out putting strychnine and LSD on phone booth buttons, but now they’ve moved on to slashing the ankles of unsuspecting women. They lay in wait underneath women’s cars at gas stations, and as they get out, they attack! Fortunately, just like the LSD scare, this … Read more
Sue and I have raised a few eyebrows by deciding to go with a midwife for delivering the baby, rather than a traditional obstetrician. Not that people are all that surprised — Sue being nature girl and all — but they’ve been a little concerned, mostly because of misconceptions about what a midwife is and what it means for giving birth.
So why the surprise? It seems that a lot of folks think that having a midwife means that you’re giving birth at home. And naturally they were a little anxious about her being so far away from the hospital.
But having a midwife doesn’t mean that you have to have the baby on your couch. In fact, from what I’ve seen and read, that option would be the exception to the rule.
It’s finally done. The cabinets that my grandfather and I built for Sue and mine’s library are now installed. My brother-in-law and father-in-law helped me (ok, let’s be honest here … I helped them. I know my strengths, and construction is not one of them) maneuver the cabinets into position. It was not a particularly … Read more
I posted this using my new wireless network. Too freaking cool. I’m not sure if all my networking issues are now resolved, but they maybe. The router managed to connect as it should, even after I took the night off to watch the Super Bowl, so that “disconnect after 2 hours” bug I was having … Read more