Dear Mahri,
So we measured your height the other day. Yes, you were tall. You’re in the 95th percentile… of children who are three months older than you. By height predictor calculations you are going to be 6 feet 4 inches. And there’s no way to avoid this. After all…
…your mom is 6′
…your grandfathers are 6′ [...]
Archive for October, 2008
On Being (Really) Tall (Letters to Mahri, October 31, 2008)
Posted in Letters To Mahri, tagged childhood, fatherhood, letters to children, Mahri, on being tall, parenting, preparing for parenthood, short people, stay at home dad, stay at home father, tall people, tall women on October 31, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Things Change (Letters to Mahri, Oct 5, 2008)
Posted in Letters To Mahri, tagged childhood, childhood injury, fatherhood, fragile x, letters from a father, letters to children, parenthood, parenting, preparing for parenthood, stay at home dad on October 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
My Dearest Mahri,
Two weeks ago your Mom and I were quietly eating dinner after we had let you down from your highchair to play. We suddenly heard a bang and turned around to see that you had tipped over a small bench; something you had done once before, as I recall. This time, however, you [...]
Top 25 Canadian Films: A List
Posted in Movies, Top 130 Movies: A List, tagged Award Winning Canadian Films, Best Canadian Films, Canada Film, Canadian Movie List, Canadian Movies, Canadian Short Films, Douglas Coupland, Favourite Canadian Movies, Frédéric Back, Jean Giono, Paul Fox, Top Canadian Movies on October 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Canadians are probably the only people on the planet who are constantly bringing up the fact that so-and-so is Canadian. That is to say, the person is not American. (Americans, of course, suffer from no such insecurity.) But who can blame us? When you are a small country, living next to a media powerhouse, it’s [...]
Soundtrack of My Life: #6 3-2-1 Contact
Posted in Oblations, tagged 3-2-1 Contact, Masterpiece Theater, Mystery, television theme music on October 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Like most kids in the 80s, I watched my share of television. But the first show that I remember watching regularly was 3-2-1 Contact, a science educational show that ran from 1980 to 1988. Not only is the music catchy enough for a young child to enjoy, but the the opening contains visceral, [...]
Soundtrack of my Life:#5 Mysterious Ways (U2)
Posted in Oblations, tagged mysterious ways, U2 on October 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I never encountered U2 until I was late into my teens. The leader of the church youth group I attended had warned us about “the dangers of U2” when they shot into the mainstream with Joshua Tree. So I obediently stayed away from them… much to my own detriment.
I finally encountered them in high school, [...]
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