I’m The Modernish Father and this is my wee corner of the web. Life rarely slows down long enough for me to be able to record what’s going on, but when it does, I share it here.
When I launched this blog earlier this year, it was my intent to post on a daily or near daily basis. As you can see by looking at the archives, I’ve failed pretty miserably at that so far.
Starting tonight, however, I intend to make a concerted effort to post each night before I go to [...]
Well, now that there actually is a baby and we’ve determined the gender (allegedly), The Wife and I have dusted off the ol’ baby name books and come to one simple conclusion.
You really only need three things to publish a baby name book:
The ability to copy the work of others
A publisher who thinks a book of [...]
There’s a lot of upside to living in a town with one of the nation’s largest universities. We can go to any number of cultural or sports events throughout the year, there’s ton of shopping and restaurants that don’t belong in a town our size and we’ve got 40,000 college students pumping sales tax revenue [...]
As I mentioned last time, The Boy started at his new preschool last week. His previous school was close to our old apartment and my old job, but it was just too far once we bought our house and I changed jobs. Getting out there and back to work/home was a thirty-minute process and ate [...]
Yesterday was the big day. Well, not THE big day. I suppose that’s still about four months away. But it was the other big day – the 20th week ultrasound.
It took a while for the ultrasound technician to zero in on the necessary hardware but we found out the information that we were looking for [...]
For those of you who’ve never had the pleasure of sleeping in the same room with me (which should be nearly all of you), I snore like a convention of angry lumberjacks. To combat the noise and potential health risks of such nocturnal activity, I use a CPAP machine when I sleep at night. In [...]
Growing up, there were some children’s books that I found to be just flat-out creepy. I guess it was probably the illustrations that got to me moreso than the actual story content, but even today, there are certain books that evoke a knee-jerk rejection when I see them or hear their titles.
Pretty much any book [...]
First, hats off to The Wife for finally getting off her pregnant bum and finally updating her woefully neglected blog. The U.S. Census publishes content more often she does. In her defense though, she has been busy at work and is growing a child. Plus, it’s hard to blog when you go to bed directly [...]
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