Retiring Guy

I’m using a different approach in this letter. These “news reports” are written in the third person, as if I’m some unbiased observer. ...

JoAnna went to bed at 7 o’clock this evening, a much-deserved early-to-bed time for her. When I returned home from a city finance commit...

Thank God it’s Wednesday! That exclamation will give you an indication of how busy this week has been already. A year ago, JoAnna and I...

1 was enough. Immediately upon waking, Eddie is calm, then boom!  He shifts gears into a fussy period wherein I imagine myself staying ho...

It’s the lazy part of a Sunday afternoon, the overcast, dreary conditions making me almost want to hibernate, but I want to feel produ...

Eddie's still feverish, Dad's still flexible.  Eddie's still in a cuddlebunny kind of mood, so I find it's hard to focus o...

Dad's first day of kindergarten Whiitier School, Great Falls, Montana From the level of nervousness I was trying to suppress, on...

The weather is unseasonably mild; we seem to have leapt six weeks into the year.  I look forward to a walk with the boys, but Eddie takes...

JoAnna leave for Portage around 10.  I plan to go grocery shopping in the morning but need to walk around a fussy Eddie guy.  He has anoth...

I laze around this afternoon, not getting much done as I drift into a deep reverie listening to Getz-Gilberto and reading the liner notes ...

I drive Andy to daycare, then make an appearance at the library before attending the RFP Committee meeting at Monona.  On the drive back ...

Shouldn't we wash the sheets today?" I asked JoAnna as we're about the make the bed. "No, let's wait til tomorrow...

JoAnna leaves for work early.  I drive Andy to daycare, then begin to work on the list of 15 chores I have assigned to myself.  Laundry. ...

My first thought is to go into work early, maybe take part of the afternoon off, enough to take in a movie.  Instead, I stay home and do s...

I'm up early and leave the house by 7:30, stopping at the library to see if there's anything of interest on my desk.  It does see...

The heat wave continues into my first official day of vacation.  Already I've having mixed feelings. Shouldn't I have more exciti...

I wake up feeling the same as yesterday.  I make my phone calls to let people know of my condition, then immediately note an improvement i...

I lounge in bed with Eddie.  He's so happy, so playful; it's such an ideal way to start the day. It's a routine day at work...

I walk to work, not having any taxi service to deal with today.  I surprise myself during the morning by making progress on the goals and ...

My new organizational approach to work is working well.  By the end of the day, I had erased everything on my list.  I leave the library ...