Most NCAA football teams report for practice this week, which marks the beginning of a very special time of year for A Free Man, and A Free Boy. While his Mum is not enamored of this photo, I’m pleased to see that Baby Z is working on his game face for the upcoming season. He’s even [...]
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Analysis and freaky sensitivity
Gregor Mendel, the father of modern genetics, started to study the mechanisms of heredity after observing variations in flower color in his garden pea plants. He began to notice patterns from season to season and ultimately was able to predict the frequency of one flower color occuring in subsequent generations versus another. What started with attention to [...]
This Week on the (Dr.) OC: No joy but lacks salt
I know that I’m about as far from objective as I am from my homeland, but this week’s installment of Dr. O’C’s recounting of pregnancy and childbirth struck me to the quick. I’m not one to be quoting poetry, but her post this week made me think of a Robert Frost poem that I must have read [...]
Faded from the winter
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Iron & Wine’s “The Creek Drank the Cradle” is available from .
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Z’s Music Monday: Get pissed, destroyyyy…
It was not my intent to open the Pandora’s box of punk rock for young Z over breakfast on Sunday morning. In the gamut of kid’s music, punk has some things going for it – loud, simple chord structure and often amusing, repetitive lyrics. It also has a number of fairly obvious negatives. But when my [...]
You looked like a swimmer
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Broken Social Scene’s self-titled album is available from .
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And then I see a darkness
As you very likely know, Dr. O’C has taken on a chunk of the writing duties here at A Free Man while your underwhelming correspondent is burning the employment candle at both ends. What you may not know is that she’s largely taken over the photography duties as well. Pretty much any photo of Baby [...]
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I’m always a sucker for scientific small talk. At a “Baby Housewarming” (don’t ask), I was talking to a woman about her little boy. He was a very quiet child and slightly reluctant to wade into the baby melee. “Yes”, she said, “he’s very shy, but both his Dad and I are as well.” I don’t [...]
Z’s Music Monday: k.d. lang
“Smoke dreams
From smoke rings
While a cigarette burns
I keep yearning for you…”
It’s about time that Z and I got around to this particular Canadian chanteuse, because k.d. lang saved my life.
I started smoking in High School and unlike most people’s experience, I didn’t start smoking because of peer pressure. In fact, nobody that I knew smoked. [...]
Happy Independence Day!
“I like AC/DC and ZZ Top
Bocephus, Beasties and the kings of rock……
Punk rock, The Clash
Boy bands are trash
I like Johnny Cash and Grand Master Flash.
Flash…”
A Happy 4th of July to you all.
It’s my fourth Fourth away from the States. While no longer resident, I’ll always be an American and so will Z. He may grow [...]
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