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You Can’t Spell Maine Without M-E 2008-05-27 15:00:14 As I have detailed in the past here and here, I think I am the center of universal attention — hence the blog and all. Despite my debilitating self-absorption, I actually managed to ride my new bike to work last week without breaking out in a nervous sweat (or any sweat at all; the two-mile [...] Read more:Maine
Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign 2008-06-01 19:44:53 Back in grade school, our class did a unit (haha) on sign language. We learned some basic words as well as the alphabet. I still remember how to sign my name—complete with the pinkie swoosh flourish—though have never been called upon to do so in the heat of any moment.
Apart from this instruction, [...]
Home Alone 2008-06-05 10:23:54 Starting Friday, Megan is going away to her childhood summer camp with her childhood summer camp friends for a long weekend of reliving their childhood summer camp memories. I never went away to summer camp as a kid and I’ve always been secretly1 jealous of Megan’s halcyon summer days spent bunking in a cabin by [...] Read more:Home Alone
Tasty 2008-06-08 12:28:49 A few weeks ago I was contacted by Tasty
Baby.com to represent the Dads of the Blogosphere! by writing some content for their upcoming Father’s Day celebration. Honored and goony with delight, I took the opportunity to write another sonnet: Eighty-Eight Keys to Overzealous Parenting.
Syllabically speaking, Eight-Eight scans well but don’t count on any reliable amount [...]
I Didn’t Feed Hazel KFC 2008-06-11 09:35:45 Upon reflection on my weekend alone with Hazel, I think the key to success was keeping busy. I know that I get unduly cranky when I’m bored, so maintaining an environment of constantly shifting foci would surely stave off any whininess Hazel could muster (or at least keep her off-kilter enough for me to trick [...]
The Reality We Accept 2008-06-12 15:05:04 Yesterday, when I got home from work, Megan and Hazel were hanging out front in the shaded (as opposed to the shady) part of the yard. I pedaled up, making a damn dashing entrance even with my dorky bike helmet perched atop my head like an oversized conch shell. After a few minutes of debriefing [...] Read more:Accept
High Five Years! 2008-06-16 20:03:36 This past weekend, Megan and I went camping up near Bar Harbor, Maine to celebrate three things in ascending order of importance:
I had an off-site client meeting on Friday that went very well despite of (or perhaps owing to) the inclusion of the phrase (not by me), “I wouldn’t piss in his mouth if his [...] Read more:Years
Hosiery Simian Peddles Chapeaux 2008-06-27 12:24:58 The cast of characters here at From Here to Paternity just keeps growing and growing. No, Megan isn’t pregnant again and no, we haven’t gotten a third cat or a first dog. I’d like to introduce the Internet to my dear friend Super Orange the Sock Monkey1. And my word, what doth [...] Read more:Hosiery
No Means No 2008-06-25 14:18:02 Despite it being June, Loki still managed to play an April Fools’ Day prank on Maine last week, swapping our normal weather patterns for those of the Pacific Northwest. Each gray, rainy day was followed by an equally gray, rainy day. People took to referring to their umbrellas as bumbershoots and grunge-era flannel [...] Read more:Means
Sir Mix-a-Bit 2008-07-14 13:04:16 After a Friday spent swimming, eating, and petting the chickens (no euphemism there – this is Maine after all) at my company picnic, we Ragozzines of Maine girded ourselves against an invasion of blues-loving music fans. This weekend, Rockland hosted the 15th Annual North Atlantic Blues Festival, though considering how many attendees were walking [...]
Shiver Me Toddlers 2008-07-06 18:46:06 Even though neither gal has even finished their application essays, Scout and Hazel were busy last weekend figuring out how to pay for college:
“Golly, Scout, I don’t there’s enough moolah in that there piggy bank to pay for even one of us to go to college!”
“Zounds! That’s bad news, Hazel. We better either [...] Read more:Toddlers
The Lie-Berry 2008-07-29 11:07:21 Megan, Hazel, and I all love the library. We typically have about half a dozen books out at any one time, which makes me proud. I always wanted to live in a big, old house with packed-to-the-gills bookshelves in every nook. And while we don’t live in that house yet, I can [...]ShareThis Read more:Berry
The Rock(land) Bottom Line 2008-07-24 12:41:10 Yesterday, on my bicycle commute home — which started in a light rain that (thankfully) tapered off to naught before last night’s frighteningly violent thunderstorms — I was catcalled. I was pedaling up the slight hill by Hannaford when a boorish rogue, riding shotgun in a battered pickup truck, barked out “Nice ass!” as [...]ShareThis Read more:Bottom
Free Clothes: A Guilty Pleasure 2008-07-22 15:01:57 I’ve never bought my own underwear. Not even once have I meticulously examined then chosen a pair of briefs or boxers and marched proudly to the cash register, holding the package of unmentionables aloft and proclaiming, “I have need of underpants and will pay good money to have them!” Seriously. Even the [...]ShareThis Read more:Clothes
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A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out 2008-07-15 12:58:27 If this were Jeopardy, the category might read “Fahrenheit 411” or “Degree of Difficulty.” Alex Trebek reads, “Your answer is ‘105°’.” The correct response, in the form of a question, is “What is Hazel Ragozzine’s internal body temperature on the afternoon of July 14, 2008?” Correct! To put that in focus, [...]ShareThis Read more:Fever
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Free Just Sounds Better 2008-08-14 19:43:17 It’s no secret that I love free stuff. This is not to say that I stop at every pile of junk put out by the roadside by folks who are just too lazy to have a garage sale, picking through the cardboard box with FREE hastily scribbled on one flap in the hopes of [...]ShareThis Read more:Sounds
About a Liter Short 2008-08-07 12:12:14 And while I volunteered to be stuck by a needle today, what truly hurts is that Hazel is growing up pretty damned fast. After week and weeks of her hating daycare, something clicked last week and she now loves it. She says the names of her classmates at home and I’m convinced, if [...]ShareThis Read more:Short
I Still Don’t Like Piña Coladas 2008-08-05 12:50:22 Megan called me at work around 4:30 or so yesterday afternoon, offering me a ride home. It was raining outside and I had biked to work. She and Hazel were on their way back from a doctor’s appointment anyway (even though I should refrain from writing this on the Internet, Hazel’s naturopathic doctor’s [...]ShareThis
Fun With Lobster 2008-08-01 10:41:15 This week is the 61st Lobster
Festival here in Rockland. Tens of thousands of be-visored tourists have descended on our quiet coastal town to sup upon a modern day delicacy that our forefathers wouldn’t even eat on a bet. The first night of the Festival (Wednesday) is traditionally Home Town Night—no admission fees [...]ShareThis
Mitt Stakes 2008-09-03 21:13:20 It has often been recommended to not write a blog post while drunk due to a general lack of judgment (and spelling ability), but since I don’t drink very often or en masse, I suppose that my directive would be to not post while angry. Here’s to throwing that sage suggestion off a cliff onto [...] Read more:Stakes
On the Count of Tuhoo 2008-09-02 10:06:54 Yesterday, I painted our bedroom. While lots of folks maintain that your new apartment, house, trailer, or lean-to is not truly yours until the last moving box is unpacked and broken down, I like to think that slapping some paint on a few walls is a truer test. Covering up that “new tenant” [...]
And Yet, I Couldn’t See My House From There 2008-08-26 20:59:56 In standard adventure fashion, nothing about our Katahdin trip went as planned. Of course that makes it all the more fun.
To start, Paul’s original ETA of 5:00 p.m. was pushed back due to work constraints back in CT. Freed from the daily grind, he called up the RAGOZZINE setting on his trusty GPS [...] Read more:House
Many Parsecs Above San Francisco 2008-08-22 11:05:31 I’m more excited to see the wild parrots of Telegraph Hill nicely represented toward the end of the video. See you on the flip side of Mt. Katahdin! Read more:Francisco
Privy Paradox 2008-08-21 14:41:59 Okay, here’s your fair warning that this post is kind of gross. You still have time to scoot off and read The Family Circle or something.
Currently, I’m being torn apart by a paradox. Something’s going on and I have two complete opposite ways of reacting. I can only do one and both [...] Read more:Paradox
Camp Check-a-lista 2008-08-19 10:31:55 The great thing about living in Maine is that we’re already in Vacationland. As such, we never have to travel too far to get away from it all. This past weekend, Megan’s folks rented a cabin on Sheepcot Lake and invited us to stay over Saturday night. This is the very same [...] Read more:Check
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An “Other” Post 2008-09-22 10:12:46 Like an adorable sponge, Hazel is soaking up language at a frenzied pace currently. Her vocabulary arsenal silos into three distinct categories:
Food Words: These were the first words Hazel mastered. “Turkey”, “cracker”, “hot dog”, “noodle”, and the ever-popular, two-arms-in-the-air “Ketchup!!”
Manner Words : While we typically have to remind her to say them, we [...]
Now Where Is That Secret Knot? 2008-09-17 21:06:09 What is the point of an oaken mantle
or a bookcase holding tome upon tome
when pushing books or tipping a candle
shows no secret passage within my home?
Some folks want a house with a water view
or a residence with french doors replete,
but a layout feature plucked straight from Clue
will truly make my abode feel complete.
Guttering torches lighting [...]
New Picture Book By I.P. Freely Receives Rave Reviews 2008-09-10 21:09:56 Excitement comes in many forms. For some, nothing beats the rush of barreling down a snow-laden mountain face with two planks strapped to your feet. Still others find their adrenaline rush in the spin of the Roulette Wheel or the toss of the dice. And others, like Hazel and her Uncle Ryan, [...] Read more:Picture
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