Category: Blog

Elaine and I played mer-otters and zombie mer-otters in the wave pool today. Yes, mer-otters. They’re otters with mermaid tails.

“What’s it called… Not a molecule… Not thermometer… Yeah, calculator!” –Elaine

Wesley has become a three-tooth.

Wesley laughed much of the way walking Elaine home. As far as I could tell, he was laughing whenever he saw a plant that was particularly bushy.

Eating banana makes Wesley flap his arms and warble. I think he’s turning into a bird. The dogs want a chance to turn into birds too.

Ten years ago, my new year’s resolution was to enter a story in Writers of the Future every quarter until I won. Today I finally broke that resolution. Oh well. Ten years isn’t bad.

“Powers, oh powers, I wish, I wish the food I don’t like would taste like licorice!” -Elaine

“You never know when scissors are going to come to life.” — Elaine, who is now feeding paper to her pet scissors

In an effort to keep my daughter’s life magical, I lugged half a dog crate to the nearest park today where she transformed it into a sled.

“If I sled good enough, I might travel all the way to Christmas Eve!” — Elaine

Ah, the beautiful, discordant sound of Elaine singing Christmas carols with the radio… just not the same ones as the radio.