Graceful Parenting in Austin

I must say until now I have never considered polygamy seriously. Mostly, I have been offended and disturbed and I have imagined making trips in the middle of the night through secured compounds to rescue young girls who I would let live with me until they could live on their own as free and independent [...]

I’m at home with my favorite real estate agent, Winona Barron, trying to figure out how to buy a larger house in central Austin for less than a million dollars. We are doing all right, except that Baby Girl’s bedroom is technically a dining room and there are four of us sharing the same bathtub/shower. [...]

Maybe she is Helen’s family and I’m the one who called the authorities, I might as well have called the police, because her family was sucking so bad at taking care of her, maybe her family knew it was me who called and this is a good day for a long walk instead of visiting Helen. … I asked the nurse why she was hiding the medicine bottles and she said Helen can’t remember if she took her medicine and she might take it too often, so someone is always with her when she takes it now.

Check out this new picture Noel made for my About Page. I’m so amazed by what she can do. She can draw and write and even get braces and go to overnight volleyball camp on the same day without being worried at all. And we really do look like that. (Except I’m not [...]

Blue Eyes and I are having a rough week, with a lot to do for the kids and our jobs needing our time and little left for ourselves. When I’m running on empty like that, I turn to TV sometimes, which helps a lot with not having enough time i know, but anyway, I’m watching [...]

(Read part 1 if you haven’t already.)
Oh, my, I must say that my greatest challenge in showing kindness to people I don’t know is when I’m on the phone with a customer representative from my insurance company. I just can’t say exactly why and maybe it is worth a series of sessions in therapy, but [...]