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Daily trials and tribulations of a 4-year-old

Jon — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:12:23 +0000

“Daddy, I need to ask you a question that I think you might know the answer to.” “Sure, pal. What is it?” “Is Iron Man a good guy or a bad guy?” “He’s a good guy.” “Oh. I thought so, but I saw him on a magazine cover and he was on the ground, and there was another guy [...]

Merry Christmas!

Jon — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 04:47:59 +0000

Teenage Mutant Ninja Kiddos

Jon — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:09:54 +0000

My nephew, Max, has gotten my son hooked on the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”—and I’d pause here to tell you how opposed I am to polluting Zack’s brain with garbage such as “TMNT,” but that ship has sailed, and I lost that battle long ago; apparently, objecting to violent children’s programs, toy weapons and violence-laced [...]

A funny thing happened on the way to my blog …

Jon — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:06:54 +0000

So, as I was mentioning a while back, I was hoping to start posting here with a little more frequency … but, as I also was mentioning a while back, I had been busy getting my Red Sox website off the ground, and it was eating up a significant amount of my time. Well, it turns [...]

I didn’t expect that

Jon — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:18:42 +0000

Watch the video above, then click on the "Read the rest" thing below.

The dog ate my blog

Jon — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:02:28 +0000

Building this site, getting it online and actually having a place to publish some of my own creative writing for the world to see was a massive accomplishment for me, and an extremely meaningful one, as I had, up until that point, done very little writing outside of work, despite wanting very badly to do [...]

Jadyn: 2 years

Jon — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:58:50 +0000

Dear Jadyn, Wow. My goodness, how you've changed since my previous letter to you. As I read that letter a moment ago and looked at the pictures that accompany it, I realized that you were still a baby back then; you are very much a little girl now.

Zack: 4 years

Jon — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:34:52 +0000

Dear Zack, Where to begin? You have changed so much during the months since last I wrote. I just re-read my previous letter to you so as to have a reference point, and, while there are plenty of similarities between who you were then and who you are now, there are at least as many differences. It is amazing to see the boy you are today, four years on from the day you were born.

Belated SXSW 2007 wrap-up

Jon — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:14:29 +0000

Hey nowwwwww! How’s my peeps? Huh? What’s that? Who am I? Well, um, I’m Jon. I’m the guy who built this place. You know, the hip, cool, oh-so-talented writer dude who, uh, never writes anything? Why, you were expecting someone else? You’ve been what? Sleeping here? Yeah, I suppose it has been pretty quiet. Well, [...]

Battered Van Halen-fan syndrome

Jon — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:26:43 +0000

Look, I appreciate your concern, but, really, I’m OK. He’s not going to hurt me again. Yes, I know it’s not the first time he’s said he’d change … not the first time he’s said it won’t happen again … that he’ll stop drinking … that I can trust him … that he really loves me. [...]