Quote of the Day: “You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy when skies are gray; you’ll never know dear, how much I love you, please don’t take my sunshine away.” –attribution disputed and unclear The Scamp and TB have a lot of good talks at bath time. Always have. …
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Tag Archive: fatherhood
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May
08
TB and the Dad Life
Quote of the Day: That video went around the webs awhile back and I’m pretty sure you have all seen it before now. I post it again to set the scene. TB traveled this weekend to Folly Beach, South Carolina, to attend a family event. For reasons not pertinent to my tale, it was just …
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Jan
19
The Driest Comedians in the Whole Dang So-Called Mainstream Universe
Quote of the Day: “And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.” –Groucho Marx, Animal Crackers One of the many joys of parenthood…… …….being around the Little Scamp and her posse when they start …
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Dec
12
Talkin’ Suburb Christmas Blues
Quote of the Day: “Face full of black soot, the man in the trench coat, look out kid, it’s something you did, God knows when; please her, please him, buy gifts, light yourself a candle, look out kid, they keep it all hid….” –selected Christmassy lines, out of context and out of order, cherry-picked from Subterranean …
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Nov
29
TB Goes to See Twilight
Quote of the Day: “Can vampires go into shock?” –Bella Swan You can’t pigeonhole me. Yeah, I go to melodramatic movies, what of it? TB is an excellent husband. And honestly, these vampire/werewolf/teen angst flicks aren’t so bad. Sure, I laugh when half the theater is crying–but quietly, very quietly–I told you I am an …
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Oct
25
Short Hops II
Quote of the Day: “I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” –Henry David Thoreau So often TB catches myself in a situation that I never could have imagined, pre-Scamp. Just this month I realized I had become an unlikely expert …
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Sep
06
The Inquiring Mind of the Scamp
Quote of the Day: Gordie: Alright, alright, Mickey’s a mouse, Donald’s a duck, Pluto’s a dog. What’s Goofy? Vern: If I could only have one food for the rest of my life? That’s easy-Pez. Cherry-flavored Pez. No question about it. Teddy: Goofy’s a dog. He’s definitely a dog. Gordie: I knew the $64,000 question was …
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