Tag Archives: KatyBeth

… my little girl celebrated her seventh birthday. Thankfully, her Mom was willing to let her tag along with me to the conference, so KatyBeth was perhaps the only seven-year-old to have her birthday party planned, supplied and attended by bloggers. The JFK Suite at the Fort Worth Hilton certainly outclasses the party room at Chuck E. Cheese, that’s for ...

Arrived in Springfield around 3:30, to find most of the cool kids already there. Dinner was great, the Atomic Nerds’ home-brewed beer even better, and the laughter and storytelling the best of all. Got to reconnect with a few friends, and finally meet some virtual friends in person. Tomorrow we’ll have breakfast, spend the day swapping lies, solving the world’s ...

1. Dentistry is best left to the professionals.* I don’t care if that broken molar has been bothering you for weeks. I don’t care if another week will pass before you can get in to see the dentist. I don’t care if you’ll save $100 on a simple extraction. If your ex-wife says, “I have 2% Lidocaine, a 27 gauge ...

On some nights around Casa de Ambulance Driver, particularly those when the thunder is booming, or when she’s had a bad dream… … I will be awakened by the sound of a 7-year-old with a limp toddling into my bedroom, or perhaps by the scraping of a small footstool being dragged across the floor, and presently a little blonde head ...