Hosea's Blog

Son 2 went to visit a friend from school this afternoon, and spent several hours there.   His friend, Chris, called him mid-morning -- I gue...

I'm not sure how successful a poem this is. Partly, I suppose, it is just an exercise in dactylic hexameter . Partly, too, I am continui...

I have lost count of how many times recently Son 1 (age 13) has said -- apparently apropos of nothing at all -- "I am never getting mar...

Boyfriend 4 died this evening, Thursday, at 6:27 pm Central Daylight Time. That's from the e-mail that Estelle, his recent wife , sent o...

Another topic totally unrelated to the main themes of this blog, but the world is nuts. I was browsing for something on the Internet -- I fo...

Just today, I read the following in Carolyn Hax's advice column, which is syndicated in our local newspaper. See the column "Overse...

Sometimes a picture -- or a sequence of them -- really is worth a thousand words. A couple of years ago I compared Son 2 to the young Anakin...