I’m so tired
Me, too.  Maybe we’re tired because we’re both pregnant with Miracle Babies.
Oh yeah?  That wouldn’t be good.
Well, we could only keep one.  So we’d have to subject them to tests of strength and intellectual ability.  I’m pretty sure my Miracle Baby would win.
You think so, huh?
Yeah.  My Miracle Baby would definitely be able to lift more weights and run faster than your Miracle Baby.  Your Miracle Baby would be more like a regular baby.  Maybe your Miracle Baby isn’t actually a Miracle Baby.  Maybe yours is just luck.  …

Janie and I are off to Northern State Hospital to see if we can take some photos of this abandoned, haunted mental institution. While I’m gone, bask in the cuteness of my nephew, tiny Michael.

I’ve made it a point, on this website, to refrain from any real discussion of my other sibling, with whom I have a very strained relationship, if you can even call it that. I will not go into detail about the things that keep us from speaking to one another, but to say that we both likely feel quite justified in our respective positions adverse to one another. Isn’t that always how it works?  In our family we’re very good at one thing, and that’s the silent treatment.  An …

Janie and I have been spending the last 6 years debating what our kids’ names will be and whether or not we will change our last names in some fashion to seal the family deal. Will she take my last name? Will I take hers (no – YAWN – boring!)? Will we pick a new one? She rejected my suggestion of the last name Mansfield (after my favorite short story author, Katherine) because apparently there’s something weird about having the same name as a dead celebrity. …

Several years ago I was inspired by the Disgruntled Housewife to make a list of 100 things I wanted to accomplish the following year, and since the early 00′s I’ve kept up with it and, only once, managed to cross off more than half. Janie has started coming up with lists of her own so that we could ignore our goals together, as a couple. Because isn’t the point of marrying a lady so you can have someone to share your failure with? I’ll be spending the …