Posts for Always Home and Uncool


I Ski, You Ski, We All Scream When the Credit Card Bill Arrives

From Always Home and Uncool
March 12, 2010 at 1:01 am
Just before that first time we reached the mountain, we drove past two cemeteries. That's some potentially heavy-handed foreshadowing when your family has just decided to take ... (more)

Can I Get an AAAAAAAAAAH, Man?

From Always Home and Uncool
March 10, 2010 at 1:01 am
Remember how hard I was working this year to yell less at my kids? I blew it all last night. It felt good and I won’t apologize about it. The day started so promising. Ran ... (more)

Ran Out of Excuses

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March 8, 2010 at 1:01 am

My Love has been trying to persuade me to take up jogging since shortly after we first met which, I feel compelled to point out, was at a keg party. In those days, she’d arise

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Coffee and Do Nots

From Always Home and Uncool
March 4, 2010 at 1:01 am
At eye level, just to the right of the rear entrance to the coffee shop, someone had plastered a clear sticker with a single word on it. optimism Every few days when I’d stop ... (more)

Baby Advice Gap

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March 2, 2010 at 1:02 am

When my best friend from college had her first baby a few months ago, My Love squealed in giddy delight. “If you ever need any advice, call me!” she chirped like an over-caffeinated

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Rare Disease Day: Alone We Are Rare; Together We Are Strong

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February 28, 2010 at 1:01 am

This “Do Me a Solid Sunday” happens to be Rare Disease Day. A rare disease is one that affects fewer than 200,000 people. In the United States, more than 6,000 diseases meet

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Faint Connection

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February 26, 2010 at 1:01 am

For more than 24 hours, I kept my morbid curiosity at bay. Had I seen her on New Year’s Day 2009? Was she one of them? Doesn’t matter. Don’t look. You have projects.

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That’s Right, I’m Not From Texas (But Texas Occasionally Lets Me Bring My Nasally Northeastern Self Within Point-Blank Range)

From Always Home and Uncool
February 24, 2010 at 1:02 am
A dozen things about my trip to Texas last week. 1. The annual Cure JM Foundation National Fundraiser and Educational in Austin was success. We had 200+ JM kids, parents, friends ... (more)

Doin’ It Doggy Style

From Always Home and Uncool
February 19, 2010 at 1:01 am
Our final guest in this week’s series, “When ‘Always Home’ Leaves His Home,” is the dynamic darling of the Great Plains, the acronymish FADKOG of For a Different Kind ... (more)

Grand Theft Zamboni

From Always Home and Uncool
February 17, 2010 at 1:01 am
Today’s guest in this week’s “When ‘Always Home’ Leaves His Home” series is the mysterious man from the north, Homemaker Man. He writes the fresh guffaw-fest Musings ... (more)

Privates of the Caribbean

From Always Home and Uncool
February 15, 2010 at 1:01 am
The first guest in this week’s “When ‘Always Home’ Leaves His Home” series is the woman who will tickle you with more than just her mustache. She is writer/comedian/California-girl-and-three-quarters ... (more)

Me and Jerry Springer – Too Hot for Newspapers, but Not This Blog!

From Always Home and Uncool
February 12, 2010 at 1:01 am
This is an expanded, unexpurgated version of my biweekly column for the local newspaper. As a loyal AHAU reader you get bonus links, video, photos and other bits from the cutting ... (more)

Why Today is a Snow Day

From Always Home and Uncool
February 10, 2010 at 1:01 am
The automated messaging system called to let us know that schools would be closed today because of the impending blizzard. That call came at 7 o’clock. Last night. The Things, ... (more)

Doctor, My Eyes

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February 8, 2010 at 1:01 am

Even with my fuzzy vision, I could see that my optometrist had made a mistake. The prescription for the contact lenses he gave me was actually weaker instead of stronger. He

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Confession of the Uncool

From Always Home and Uncool
February 4, 2010 at 12:03 am
As you can imagine based on Monday’s post, it’s been a whirlwind week of projects here at Uncool Estates. Most should be done by Thursday but they would have been done by today ... (more)

Everything Falls Apart

From Always Home and Uncool
February 1, 2010 at 1:04 am
The following items broke or otherwise shed their inanimate coils in the past seven days: Makita Cordless Drill. I’m not sure what about this death hurt more: That it thwarted ... (more)

Deduction

From Always Home and Uncool
January 29, 2010 at 1:01 am
One week ago: Yesterday: Can you figure it out? (If you need a hint, read "Milestones".) Have an equally great weekend, everyone. + + + You can support our ... (more)

This Yoga Tale is a Bit of a Stretch

From Always Home and Uncool
January 26, 2010 at 1:01 am
Even in my athletic heyday as a teen (multiple baseball teams, singles tennis, pickup basketball) and my resurgence in my mid-20s to early-30s (multiple softball teams, doubles ... (more)

Wayward Passengers, Please Report to the Gate

From Always Home and Uncool
January 22, 2010 at 1:44 am
My Love just returned from the annual company physical (perk of being a Globetrotting Executive Goddess), and the news is good. Even though I – he of imagined heart attacks ... (more)

The Cops Are Onto Me

From Always Home and Uncool
January 20, 2010 at 1:01 am
Remember my strategy for dealing with scofflaw drivers along the route The Things’ walk to school? You don’t? Click that link above and read. Too lazy to do that? OK, a hint ... (more)

Shows NBC is Developing to Replace Leno in Prime Time

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January 18, 2010 at 1:01 am

Law & Order: Parking Violations Bureau The Biggest Loser: Talk-Show Host Edition The Weakest Link Knight Rider III: Kit Goes Hybrid Law & Order: Lost

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Causalities of the Season

From Always Home and Uncool
January 15, 2010 at 11:37 am
The first carcass appeared the day after New Year's in my neighbor's front yard. The next morning, a second victim lay smack in the northbound lane of street outside my neighborhood. ... (more)

Deep Dish on Food, Science and Chicago

From Always Home and Uncool
January 13, 2010 at 1:01 am
Thing 1 and I have returned from Chicago where we saw her Juvenile Myositis specialist without drama. We’ll reserve that for when the blood tests come back next week and we learn ... (more)

Do Me a Solid Sunday – Anissa Mayhew Style

From Always Home and Uncool
January 10, 2010 at 1:01 am
Anissa Mayhew and I first bonded over pediatric disease. No, not the malady of raising children though that should be considered for the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical ... (more)

On the Wagon

From Always Home and Uncool
January 7, 2010 at 3:13 pm
If you walk away from this blog having learned only one thing about me, it should be this: I’m far from a perfect father. I mean, I’m not the worst dad out there. Still. ... (more)