When Orville was three, someone lent him 73 episodes of Pokemon, which he kept until he was 8. (Incidentally, as of this birthday, we’ve managed to replace those episodes. He now has them all again.) In Pokemon, the premise is that on his 10th birthday, a child goes to chose his first Pokemon and begins…
The Great Pokemon Journey Birthday Party, which I have been planning since last September when Orville turned nine, was a great success. Here are a few pictures. Like all Pokemon Journeys taken by ten year olds, this one started with each child choosing his or her starting Pokemon. Each tissue paper ball contained a plushy Pokemon.…
If so, here is your chance: http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/09/anteater-needs-knife-and-ive-got-mine.html
Just realized that I neglected to explain that the scanned picture below was drawn by John.
Our new printer scans too. Here’s my attempt to fix the ripped picture of Theseus of Avernus that the Cherubin pulled off the wall when he was three or four. You can kind of see the line where it ripped, but stil…cool! I was going to make a comment about his appearances in my…
Yes, hard as it is to believe. It has finally happened. Juss is in Kindergarten! He headed off Tuesday quite bravely but reported upon returning that Kindergarten was boring. Apparently, all they did the first day was talk about what they are going to do. Even in Gym (now called P.E.) You think they would have…
Two years ago, someone mentioned the fact that another branch of our church, out in California, had held a VBS. The idea struck me like a lightning bolt. I went around thinking about nothing except this idea for two or three days. At the same time, I’d discovered that Jodi Beatty, one of the other…
Several people, here and otherwise, felt that they did not get into the story until Victoria set off to speak to the magician. So, I’m experimenting with starting the book at that point…though, of course, this postpones the first dialogue to page 6. Not sure that’s a good idea. Anyway, I’d love to hear what…
My whole life, people have been afraid of overpopulation. So much so that as recently as five years ago, I was asked to justify why I was willing to do something as terrible to the planet as have a third kid. (More than replacement rate. The assumption was that moral people had two children, or one, or none…
On the subject of Black and White movies and TV: Orville: “I don’t mind black and white. It doesn’t bother me at all.”Juss: “I don’t like black and white.”John: “But what about Gilligan’s Island? The first season was in black and white. You liked that, right?”Juss, sadly, “No, cause they left out the color.”