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Category Archives: Stephan

Nighttime Thoughts

My nighttime brain has a mind of its own. I don’t ever sleep through the night, so most nights, at some point, a completely unprompted thought will pop out of my semi-consciousness with great urgency. The super annoying part is that I can’t fall back asleep until it’s been addressed, no matter how ridiculous, but [...]

A Little Behind Schedule

I almost forgot—a long time ago was Christmas. Britain also has this thing you may have heard of called Boxing Day, which is December 26 and can perhaps best be analogized to the day after Thanksgiving—the big holiday is out of the way, and now you get a mini-holiday on which you can do what [...]

Husbands Say the Cutest Things

On picking up a notepad full of fresh, clean sheets of paper: “Can I write on the back of this?” On finding out about Prince William’s engagement: “‘Princess William Gives Fiancee Dee’s Ring.’ Oh wait…‘Prince William Gives Fiancee Di’s Ring’…I should definitely get a job where I have to read off a teleprompter.”

Thoughts on Life

1. I bet that if I ever did anything truly horrible, I would have a much less sensitive guilty conscience. I can’t tell you how guilty I feel about accidentally stepping on and breaking the shell of that one hermit crab on Maui approximately 3.5 years ago. 2. A constant stream of visiting strangers who [...]

In Which Stephan Gets A Point

For noticing this bit of the probably quite expensive advertising campaign for The Pacific miniseries: First baby duck rescue, then this. Is there anything he can’t do?* * Rhetorical

Make Way for Ducklings

Just when you thought Stephan couldn’t get any more awesome, he goes and saves a tiny little baby bitesize duckling! We had a bit of bread to feed the ducks on our canal walk yesterday, but we couldn’t find very many, so we had to walk farther than we usually do, down to the lock [...]

Trivial

1. I much prefer Bonfire Night to Halloween. This may mean I’m British now. The bonfire we went to this year was a fundraiser for the local Scout troop and featured a hastily constructed pile of wooden pallets, assorted food stalls in an open building that quickly filled with smoke, a  bouncy castle, and a [...]

Marital Strife

Not to be one of those annoying couples that claims they never fight, but we almost never do. And we’re pretty good at speedy resolution, so no one has ever had to sleep on the couch. This may not long be the case, however, as we do have this one ongoing issue that as yet [...]

Not So Eensy-Weensy

I apologize for the spider-centric posts of late, but I just have this one tiny additional story to tell you. Okay, so remember the previous reference to the annual and prolific spider invasion? It’s now over, thank goodness, but when we got back from the US, I had ten or so spiders to usher outside, [...]

Mystery Solved

On one of our super fun weekends back home, we went out to the Oregon Coast for the weekend with these people we know. There were lots of pelicans there. Seriously. It was almost scary, like in The Birds, or in a short story of a similar nature I read this one time in which [...]

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