Musing

Official Poll of the Week brought to you by "Thursday" (motto: It doesn't get any more dull than this) Assuming for a moment that Scott Peterson is guilty of killing his wife (who was 8 months pregnant when she disappeared in December of 2002): Should he be tried for a single homicide or a double homicide?

"And all of a sudden...there it was." (This goes out to all of you who have ever ran into a parked vehicle) My Aunt Lisa used to live in an apartment complex in Plymouth. Next door to this complex was an old bank building which had been standing vacant for maybe five years. My cousin (Aunt Lisa's son) Jason and I used to play in the bank's old parking lot all the time - cops and robbers, running races, the whole deal. On one particular birthday, he got a new ten-speed, and passing me his mom's bike, we proceeded out to the lot where I hoped to prove that I could still kick his ass, despite the fact that I was riding what seemed like a 1937 Schwin. It started out great. Maneuvering around under the window tellers' extension roof was a little tricky and there was plenty of broken glass to avoid. Otherwise, we ran a pretty decent race. At one point, he stopped completely and waited for me to come around again. "Look!" he said, "I...

I've been thinking a lot about my kids lately. No, this is not a confession-blog about a hoard of illegitimate little Ho's running around Indianapolis (wipe that stupidly relieved look off of your face - yeah, you). The kids that could be. It all comes back to one question: Do you have any idea how screwed up my kids are going to be? (that's rhetorical; if you feel obligated to answer, my response to your response is right here ) Their father is not exactly antisocial, but he definitely holds some ideas that run contrary to your mainstream philosophies of life. So my poor little Darran and/or Emily (or however many others end up running around my house) will have two conflicting images of life from the day they first set foot in school. They will probably develop intellectually on a different level than children of their age as well, since I plan on doing as much preschooling as I can at home. I've often wondered if I'll ever have a sacred room to mys...