Some time ago my brother and sister-in-law were up for a visit from their home in New York, and we sat in the living room bull-shitting about this and that. Not sure how the subject came up, but my sister-in-law joked to Megan, about me, “We call Brian the lazy brother”. Offended? No. Hurt? No. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Family’
All Talk, No Action
Posted in Family, Relationships, tagged Family, Personal on March 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Religiously-Speaking
Posted in Misc., Political Stuff, Relationships, tagged Catholicism, Childhood, Community, Family, Identity, Parenting, Personal, Relationships on March 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Been on a bit of Jesus thing lately. Thinking about religion, considering the role it plays in our understandings of the world, its function as an ethical code, a yearning for something more, a mark of community boundaries and so on. And generally considering the importance that religious symbols and religious communities have had at [...]
Growing Up
Posted in Family, Relationships, tagged Childhood, Family, Parenting, Personal, Relationships on February 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Lots of babies being born these days. Over the past six weeks or so, no less than seven people I know have had or are due to have brand-new gorgeous babies to welcome to the world. And that’s exciting to me, cause I love babies and I love to see new parents celebrate and find [...]
Weddings and Such
Posted in Family, Misc., Relationships, tagged Family, Personal, Relationships on October 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Well, since for the longest time I have either written nothing here or only come on to rant about what’s pissing me off, it is so so good to be finally back and writing something joyous.
Damn. Again.
Posted in Misc., tagged Family, Personal on March 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Damn. Again. And again I wake up thinking about how to talk about it with my daughter, Mica, who’s twelve. Two teen girls dead – friends, out partying, and though we don’t know exactly what went down, one of them was found by the side of a Burnaby road, the other picked up by ambulance [...]
Post-Season
Posted in Family, Misc., tagged Family, Home, Personal on January 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Feeling strangely unsettled today, and not entirely sure why. I think I awoke feeling fine, but within an hour or so I began to notice something just not quite right – a vague sense of worry, an unease, a disinterest in all around me. And nothing to pin this on, nothing that I can locate [...]
What Little Girls Are Made Of
Posted in Family, tagged Family, Parenting on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s December 18, and my little girl is 11 years old today. As I write this, I have just laid out all the newly-wrapped presents, called to sing to her – and woken up her mom in the process – and I wait to head out in the ice and snow to Burnaby Mountain for [...]
One Year and Two Families On
Posted in Family, Relationships, tagged Family, Personal, Relationships on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A lazy Sunday, cleaning house, playing some guitar, generally relaxing. Mica’s curled up with a book and a Blondie cd, her chores done as well. Megan’s soon to arrive from an afternoon at Word On the Street having some literary fun. It is exactly the kind of the day we need. Weekended on Vancouver Island. [...]
A Not-So-Little Girl
Posted in Family, tagged Family, Parenting on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Another school year. Grade six. How the fuck that happened, I don’t know. Certainly doesn’t feel like I’m any older, but all of a sudden here I am with a kid who’s moving past childhood to pre-adolescence. Scary. On the other hand, it’s looking like Mica’s finally got just a solid, good teacher – something [...]
Men Who Mattered
Posted in Relationships, tagged Childhood, Family, Relationships on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday was my first day feeling truly and completely well again after four weeks of mystery illness. A good day to go for a swim with Mica, do some lengths and get some exercise, and take Megan out to meet my cousin Matt, who’d invited us over for a barbecue. Matt is awesome. He lived [...]
