Category: Stay Day 1

  • Lazy Sunday? Not. 

    4:09 pm, New Britain CT:  big day today. Took kids on their first-ever street-to-park bike ride. For the most part, they were excellent riders and listeners. No one got run over, or even came close. Significantly expanded our horizons. Small park is about half a mile away, and has a path exactly a mile in…

  • Unpacking Father’s Day

    Noon, New Britain, CT:  As I unpacked the car, occasionally assisted by HHW and the kids, it was funny to reflect that it was women who started Father’s Day and, I think, the necktie industry that scaled it.  (There’s enough stuff on the web about both things that I won’t even bother to link to…

  • Stasis

    8:15 am – New Britain, CT:  no movement today, unless to the country club, or in my case, Dunkin Donuts (which doesn’t really exist on the west coast and has caused me to have an irrational fondness for it).  My one project today? Unpacking the car. Dogs can more or less roam free – except…

  • Car Lag

    6:15 PM, New Britain, CT:  it seems unlikely, but I think I was jet-lagged until right around now.  Which is terminologically inaccurate, given that I haven’t been on a plane in weeks.  But to borrow William Gibson’s motif in Pattern Recognition, my soul was somewhere several states behind, tethered to me but not really here, until…