Archive for the 'Family' Category

The Passing of a Giant

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

I’m going to process this more later, but I feel like I need to get this down while I’m thinking about it.
An hour ago at 2:30am Anchorage Time, Saturday August 16, my father passed away.
This has been an amazing week reconnecting with my family, visiting with dad, and mentally preparing. I can honestly say that [...]

A Run Through The Fountain

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Took a short lunch today, met the family down at the state capitol building. Took Maren for a couple of runs through the fountains out front.

Crazy Weekend

Monday, July 28th, 2008

It was a crazy weekend. We picked blueberries Saturday morning, and then took Maren to The Bite of Salem. The Bite needs to start competing with the Salem Art Fair and the Worldbeat Festival. It’s basically a cheap carnival, fair food (as in hotdogs, elephant ears) and not really great bands on a stage on [...]

Making Memories

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Dinners have been simple as of late, vegetables and meat. I like simple, especially after a day of work. I made breakfast for the staff today. Oh, and we took Maren swimming for the first time today with the ‘rents. Been a long time since I’d been swimming. Not a big fan of the public [...]

Perfect Pitch

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

So, I think Maren has perfect pitch. In the last month or so, she’ll launch into songs and she’s hitting them almost dead on. I’ve got perfect pitch, and I know the same songs, so I tried a little experiment. I picked a song that starts off acapella, and had her sing it with no [...]