I arrived at the school fifteen minutes before lunch time.  I spied on my six-year old cub protectively through the colorful cardboarded windows of his classroom, relieved to see my shy boy interacting with his classmates enthusiastically.  My two fears are that he will be like me, and not be like me. The school cafeteria [...]

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Is there enough time for everything?  I wonder about this often. The parenting.  The drawing.  The writing.  The doctoring.  The husbanding.  The exercising.  (I haven’t been gaming this week except on the treadmill.) It seems like you can hardly cover one aspect above without neglecting the others. Parenting obviously takes the biggest chunk (at home), [...]

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“Cut his ears off,” I heard my little girl say from the couch. “Cut whose ears off, baby?” I ask. “That Pokemon (points to TV).  He’s not cute … with those ears.” “No.  Don’t cut them off,” Sun Su defended. “Which one?” “Aqua,” Ooseung says. “No, that’s not his name,” Sun Su corrects. “It is,” [...]

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I closed the old lady’s eyes, already a slightly violaceous hue from her heart stopping a half hour ago. “Did you want an autopsy?” I gently asked the dutiful middle-aged son. “No, that’s okay.” Awesome.  Less paperwork. I was already an hour-and-a-half late to my little girl’s birthday party.  Work was busy and someone called in sick [...]

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So, my wife Amy made it back last night around midnight.  She had gone to an oncology nurse conference in Garden Grove, California for two and a half days.  The weather wasn’t as delightful as expected.  It was warm (60′s – woohoo!) but rainy (boohoo). Meanwhile in Mi-chilly-gan, it was scrotum-squeezing cold this week (single [...]

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