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Niko has reached the age (three) where he is mixing things he hears us say a lot in with his standard vocabulary. I’m not sure he always understands what he is saying, but it certainly is a riot to hear him say it. Examples: You have got to be kidding me!? For crying out loud!! […]

Niko got a crazy amount of play-doh for christmas. When I see that many colors I think I should be able to build entire cities with it. Turns out my vision way exceeds my execution. Here is my entire repertoire of play-doh formations: Snake Pretzel (twist up the snake) Ball Snowman (three balls, stacked) Pancake […]

I’m a ski snob. There, I said it. A complete and total snob. This began at an early age. While I learned to ski on Michigan hills, I very quickly realized the glaciers had left us geographically challenged when it came to skiing. On the way home from our first ski trip to Colorado, I turned […]

For the 13 years we lived in the bay area, my wife refused to call San Francisco the city. “There is only one The City and it sure as heck isn’t San Francisco,” she would say. So now that we have dug in out here on the east coast, I can finally say, we took […]

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