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The best thing about taking your kid to an exotic animal sanctuary…

You get to meet some cool animals too! Yeah, we paid a lot for the special tour, and yes, we drove a long way through L A traffic. But Mollie said it was the best day of her life… and … Continue reading

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You get to meet Mollie… while she is meeting cute animals… part 3…

Yes, now that Mollie, my younger daughter, is 18, my wife has given permission for her to appear on the blog in actual picture form. And that is why you get to see these pictures of her, holding an owl. … Continue reading

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You get to meet Mollie… while she is meeting cute animals… part 2…

Oh yeah… armadillo! Here are a few more of the animals we saw on our adventure to surprise Mollie on her 18th birthday. You can see Dashawn filming her for their new YouTube page, to which I stuck a link … Continue reading

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You get to meet Mollie!!!

You already know Jessica, my oldest daughter. She is the one on the left in the picture above. She is also the one getting married soon… very soon. And you hear me talking about Mollie, our younger daughter, all the … Continue reading

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This little girl is getting married…

I know, she doesn’t look like that anymore. But that is the way I remember her, back when I was a stay-at-home dad… before that was a thing… and the other dads made fun of me. I didn’t care. I … Continue reading

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The wedding shower…

Turns out that wedding showers involve drinking… Fancy drinking. Most of these pictures were taken by Mollie, our 17-year-old… because, being a man, I wasn’t allowed to be at the wedding shower. My wife went all out. That is a … Continue reading

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So, yeah… wedding shower at our house this weekend!

We are on the final countdown for Jessica, my older daughter, and Jason, my future-son-in-law, to get hitched. A little over a month. So our house was full of love this weekend. It was also full of homemade snacks! Oh, … Continue reading

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Saying goodbye to my mom… no… she isn’t dead… we just left her in the Bay Area…

There she is, that feisty ninety-something-year-old… playing our antique player piano… the cardiovascular workout of the early 1900’s… with one of the tikis I carved for her looking on, bedecked in its Christmas finery! We spent our last night in … Continue reading

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Christmas dinner… number two…

I am not making this stuff up. Every year, at my mom’s house in the San Francisco Bay Area, we have two Christmas dinners… exactly the same. That guy in the corner, stretching his neck, is my brother, Henry. He, … Continue reading

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I finally took a good photo of a flaming plum pudding!!!

It is not easy to do, because, if you use the flash, you can’t see the fire, but if you don’t, the shutter is open for a long time, and any movement makes the picture blurry. Technically speaking, that is … Continue reading

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