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Posts from June 30, 2001

What is it with parents

What is it with parents having naked baby pictures of their children? Mine were found yesterday. Let the embarrassment begin, eh? I'm sure I'll get my revenge when I take pictures of my (future) children naked and have them as ready ammunition, should they be necessary. My parents always say that their revenge will occur when I have my children. Well, believe-you-me, I have some revenge of my own for my children....

First Words

I'm told that I so loved trucks and machines when I was a child that my first word was bulldozer.

My trip to Richmond, VA

My trip to Richmond, VA yesterday was to visit my mom. I don't get to see her much, which I regret. And when I do see her, she always wants to reminisce. She talks about days when I was much younger and I smiled and giggled. Yesterday, she pulled out baby pictures. She recalled days when I watched the construction of our house, fixated by the machines and the complexity of a building project. And she searched my face, looking for signs of that person she remembered me being. He's been gone for years, but he's slowly--s l o w l y--coming back. Ironically, I mentioned how I didn't see my resemblance in the pictures--maybe it's the joy that looked so foreign. Didn't it all seem so much simpler then?