It's not all flowers and gumballs...

opaque

phizen — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:56:47 +0000

The fog has settled in along the coast. If you look out to sea the water drifts into the opaque. A camera set to auto focus, pointed into the opaque, wouldn’t be able to lock onto something to snap the shutter. If you set your camera to manual what would you focus on?

MEgaphone!

phizen — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 19:31:18 +0000

Is Donald Trump performance art? A third person orchestration of narcissism? That takes itself seriously? Further, that its audience takes seriously?

What’s really…

phizen — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:34:42 +0000

going on? Earthquakes, senate shakes, all kinds of detritus floating in the ocean. Will we be able to clean this up? Will the ideaologue generation step back, take a breath and realize it’s time to grow up and understand it’s not, ‘my way or the highway?’

rabbits

phizen — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:15:34 +0000

I was jogging along a path that winds into a valley out behind my house yesterday afternoon. About a half mile in I noticed movement out of the corner of my eye and turned to see a small rabbit hopping along. My first thought was if that rabbit didn’t move I would not have seen him. Also, that white tail: when a rabbit hops the white tail bobs up and down and flashes like a fishing lure. What is the evolutionary significance of a white tail in a low grass and shrub environment where the colors are mostly muted earth tones like browns and greens? Doesn’t seem to be a propagation proponent. But one attribute of cancer is uncontrolled growth and we are talking about rabbits here. I’ll venture a guess and say they’ll be just fine.

Meth-monkey of drama…

phizen — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 05:03:18 +0000

bounds about my house. Wait. I just put my glasses on and I realize that’s my two year-old son.

no.

phizen — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:17:35 +0000

No. No. And No. Doesn’t matter what I ask, he just says no. Sometimes no, I wait a few moments and then he acquiesces, without discussion. The word yes is not an option. Very, very frustrating. We spend a lot of hours together, so a day of ‘no’ can be a day of hell. Puts me in a bad mood, which seeps into the collective family vibe, and then boom the day is trashed.

Does ‘no’ ever end?

Travel II

phizen — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:42:46 +0000

Why traveling with a two year-old can be a great thing. I think experience is invaluable when it comes to growth and maturity and I also believe it’s never too early for a child to begin experiencing the world – we took Homie to Hawaii when he was 6 months. I got my first passport when I was 22, Homie got his when he was a year old. My wife and I value the experience travel brings and we both feel very privileged that our son could see family and friends in a foreign land. And it doesn’t have to be a trip half way around the world. A walk in the park, down a city street, or a hike in woods exposes the young child to sights and sounds she would never experience at home and in the long run adds to her growth and maturity.

Travel

phizen — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:26:52 +0000

Ready to seek pain and suffering then I suggest you and your partner grab your two year-old, pack up bags, stroller, and various odds and ends, get on a plane on the West Coast, fly to NYC – Kennedy the worst airport in the world to change planes: not equipped to handle international travel with new travel restrictions - change planes, and continue on to Manchester, stay for eighteen days, travel by car on winding roads through the North of Scotland, drink large quantities of Oban in a desperate attempt to grab joy and laughter and repeat (air travel) but in the opposite direction chasing the sun for 18 hours until you finally land back in San Francisco.

Next: Why you should actually consider travel with a two year-old.

Traveling overseas with a two-year-old

phizen — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:35:18 +0000

Should you do it? Short answer: no. More later.

Glasgow

phizen — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:46:46 +0000

Sunny and humid in Glasgow. Not typical weather for this part of the country. I am told by my friends that their winter was extremely cold and snowbound, now the summer is unseasonably warm and humid. Good for travelers but not the land.