Originally Posted 6/14/2002 – This one is interesting to me. Posted three months before I proposed to Alyson and a good 5 years before Caleb was born it is a look into the head of a single man about to take that leap into commitment and all the anxiety that goes along with it. Enjoy.
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Today we’re staying with my Parents for Caleb’s birthday. He is three today. I noticed while connected to my parent’s Network that they have a NAS drive setup. One of the first directories on the NAS drive is ‘Caleb is Born’. This picture here is one of my favorites from that directory because he looks like he’s plotting.
I just tried to convince Caleb to laugh menacingly but he informed me that I’m Dr. Doom and HE is ‘Hulk Smash’. So he’s willing to growl for me, but no maniacal laughter. Maybe later.Read More
This coming Fourth of July my little boy turns three. He is insightful and funny and as time goes on we’ve been working to introduce more concepts to him. One that we simply haven’t gotten to yet is the question of religion. At what age is a child capable of grasping the concept of God? How do you go about introducing the concept of a benevolent divine being who is out there some where?
It is the end of the school year and children are moving on to the next stages of their lives. As the father of a two year old, you wouldn’t think that would mean too much to me. Surprisingly it does.
Yesterday was officially Caleb’s last day as a ‘Starlight’. I was there because the two year old classroom was going on a field trip to a splash pool and Alyson couldn’t make it. Today the teachers are all in the daycare cleaning up and on Monday Caleb will start his new career as a ‘Friendly Frog’ which will last him until he leaves school and goes on to Kindergarten at the age of five.
Earlier this week, Alyson and I took off work for a little bit in the middle of the day. We had (really good) sushi for lunch and then headed over to the daycare during nap time to have our very first parent/teacher conference. We were not shocked by anything we heard but there were a few things that came into clearer focus when hearing it from someone else.
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Bill Olander.. William R. Olander.. passed away March 18th, 1989. He died of complications resulting from AIDS. He was by all accounts an amazing man. I’ve linked to NY Time’s obit below.
I’ve been vaguely aware of this particular Bill Olander who is not myself for several years. Its one of those things you find out when you google yourself to see what people are saying about you on the internet. Today someone came looking for this man on my site for the first time that I’m aware. I thought it was worth while to talk about someone who I would be honored to be mistaken for.
