I worked all day today, with hardly a break. I got a single chance to go for a walk around the block between meetings, but otherwise it was call after call after call, until my[…]

Today we had two parties for the girls, with different friends visiting in the morning to dress up and play in the house, and then in the afternoon a hungover friend brought round her daughter[…]

It rained today, a fine drizzle from start to finish, so to try to keep the girls from a total meltdown I took them each out, in turn, to walk around the neighborhood. On the[…]

I finally, after a year here, got around to seeing a doctor to get my statin represcribed. That meant masking up, waiting thirty minutes for an Uber, going to Fremont and then waiting outside before[…]

La Serpiente came in at 5 to wake us up, and I pleased with her for more sleep. I think we made it as far as 5:30 before she’d forced us all up with her[…]

It’s La Serpiente’s seventh birthday tomorrow, which marks the point at which almost a sixth of my life has been spent as a parent. Exhausted after a day of play, she insisted she was too[…]

I worked all day. The kids were outside all day. Still, I didn’t achieve all that I’d hoped for, and although the children returned exhausted and were quick to bed, they woke up in the[…]

After last night, I thought the kids would do their usual trick of waking up super early. Instead, they slipped into our bed and cuddled for the morning, as I mashed snooze on my alarm[…]

We both woke up feeling bad this morning, down to something we ate or drank yesterday. So rather than go for a drive and a long hike, my wife retired to bed after I was[…]

I tried reaching La Serpiente to wheelie today, and as a first step we worked on positioning. So I put her on her bike, held her backwards and the front wheel came up … And[…]