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avocado8: regaling the web with tales of whoa

The Yin and The Yang of It (posted on May 13, 2008)
The Beaner has a habit of focusing on the negative. We can have had a fabulous day together, and he'll focus on the toy I just told him he couldn't buy, or the fact that he has to take a bath when he doesn't waaaaaaaaaaant to. Usually I try to snap him out of the downward spiral by building a ladder out of all the good things that happened that day. (It's sort of a variation on the "mommy...

The Ice Hockey Escapades: sequins and skirts it's not

The Secret (of St. Louis) is Out (posted on April 8, 2008)
I've been planning on writing about (and uploading video of) some of the drills we'd been doing in our Freeze practices, but I hadn't gotten around to it... until Flickr announced that it would be supporting video. I found out a little early, which meant that I could upload to my heart's content, but I couldn't share. Now that the word is out, I'll be posting some of the clips I uploaded and talking a bit about the drills....

about town II: philadelphia

about town: san francisco bay area

sabbatical journal

What I did on my summer vacation. (2001)

inside the peel

As if you didn't already know everything about me from reading my journals.