Deal Lily,
Sit outside in your garage, or on your patio one night, as severe thunder storms are rolling in.
Have with you, your favourite drink. I’ve choosen a moderately good scotch.
Set up a comfy chair in the middle of your venue and quietly watch it happen.
Play some music. I suggest on an AM/FM radio, if something [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Dear Lily'
Dear Lily: Thunder
July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
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Letter to Lily: July 20th, 2008
July 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Dear Lily,
I’m sitting outside, in the warm humid air after a summer rain, staring at our backyard. A Corona to my left and a yellow finch to my right. He’s chattering away, excited that you and he will be spending the summer together.
You’ve just left for a two day adventure with your mom to a [...]
Dear Lily, It’s crib time.
July 4th, 2008 · No Comments
Dear Lily,
Today is going to be a rough day, though you don’t know it yet.
For the last few months you’ve been pretty spoiled. In order to have you sleep soundly, you’ve been sleeping with us most of the night. This is the case because when you wake up alone, you have a tendancy to cry, [...]
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Dear Lily: 66%
May 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Hi Lily,
Today you are 66% of 1 year old.
In that time you’ve gone from a little immobile lump of cute, capable of not much more than laying around eating an pooping to a fast moving, clawed, sharp toothed, babbling whirlwind of cute.
You exhaust your mom and I, and we may get grumpy about it from [...]



