“A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking… as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing…. What you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure… When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now [...]
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Pleasure and Memory
Posted in Old Books, tagged C.S. Lewis, memory, Out of the Silent Planet, pleasure on March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Letters from Grandad Mackie (Letters to Mahri, March 26, 2008)
Posted in Letters To Mahri, tagged children, family, fatherhood, grandparents, Letters, letters to children, parenting, stay at home dad, stay at home father on March 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Dear Mahri,
After I wrote that letter to you about my grandad Mackie, my mother reminded me that he also wrote me letters when I was about the same age as you. I received these letters from my mom about a month ago and I decided this morning that the time was finally right for [...]
Swimming Lessons (Letters to Mahri, March 24, 2008)
Posted in Letters To Mahri, tagged childhood, family, fatherhood, letters to children, parenting, stay at home dad, stay at home father on March 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
My Dear Mahri,
A few months ago we took swimming lessons together. Every Monday and Wednesday morning we’d bike to the pool and swim for 30 minutes with a class of other babies and parents. As a class we’d spend 15 minutes playing in the larger main pool, then we’d spend 15 minutes playing in [...]
The Toughest Job I’ve Ever Had (Letters to Mahri, March 4, 2008)
Posted in Letters To Mahri, tagged children, fatherhood, housework, letters to children, parenthood, parenting, stay at home dad on March 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Dear Mahri,
I’m not very good at this stay-at-home-dad stuff. Yes, I’m generally good at keeping you alive: for the most part you eat and sleep each day (with some exceptions). And if that was all there was to it, I’d be passable as a stay-at-home-parent. But it’s not. A big part of what I should [...]
In Bruges – written and directed by Martin McDonagh
Posted in Movies, tagged grotesque, In Bruges, Martin McDonagh, Movies, Six Shooter on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Two hitmen are sent to Bruges, Belgium, by their boss after a hit goes wrong. Ken (Brendan Gleeson) is an old soul, worn down by the cumulative effects of his actions. While Ray (Colin Farrell), new to the job, is still young, both in life and at heart, and suffers his job more acutely. To [...]
Top 130 Movie List: #15 Chinatown (1974, Dir: Roman Polanski, Scr: Robert Towne)
Posted in Top 130 Movies: A List, tagged Movies, films, Chinatown, Roman Polanski, film directing on March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the tradition of Raymond Chandler and movies like The Big Sleep (Top 130: #24) and The Maltese Falcon (Top 130: #31), Chinatown is a near perfect movie which finds Private Investigator Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) plunged into a world of money, murder and… water.
Robert Towne is the writer responsible for this, one of the [...]
Top 130 Movie List: #5 Lawrence of Arabia (1962, Dir: David Lean, Scr: Robert Bolt)
Posted in Top 130 Movies: A List, tagged Movies, Film, lawrence of arabia, David Lean on March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lawrence of Arabia is a sweeping epic that still manages to be a character study of the entirely unique and compelling T.E. Lawrence.
Notwithstanding the writing of Robert Bolt and the performance by Peter O’Toole (was there ever a better break-out role?), David Lean’s direction is what moves this movie into the realm of [...]
8 Lessons to Prepare for Parenthood
Posted in Letters To Mahri, tagged children, parenthood, stay at home dad on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A stay-at-home-mom friend, Jodi, passed on a funny email to me about preparing for parenthood. Here are some of my favourites that rang true from personal experience:
Lesson 1
Go to the grocery store. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to their head office. Go home. Pick up the paper. Read it for the last [...]
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