Category Archives: Family

Emily’s Latest

April 27, 2008 – 9:57 pm

On Friday night, Emily disappeared into her room for about 3 hours, only emerging briefly and intermittently, looking increasingly like a chimney-sweep at the end of a hard day each time I saw her. My curiosity was, of course, piqued, but she refused to let me see what she was up to until she finished [...]

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Sandfest 2008

April 24, 2008 – 12:06 pm

This year we decided to do Sandfest properly. I went prowling for places to stay a couple months ago, and somehow managed to secure a wonderful house right on the beach, an easy stroll from Sandfest itself. The big, open house with lots of places to sleep worked out great for our mob, which numbered [...]

By SeanMcTex | Also posted in Travel | Comments (0)

Bo Jon’s Surf & Gifts: Beware

April 24, 2008 – 11:49 am

Sunday, April 20, 2008
This past weekend, the family was down in Port Aransas for Sandfest. As we were leaving town, we decided to stop by Bo Jon’s Surf & Gifts, a big gift shop near one of the central intersections with an entrance made up to look like a shark’s mouth, about 2:00pm. While we [...]

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2 Jokes

April 13, 2008 – 10:06 pm

Some original jokes to recently come* out of the humor mines where we mercilessly work our children night and day:
From Liam:
Q: Where do you get cold, hard cash?
A: At Frost Bank! (Note: this may be only regionally funny; I’m not sure how far away the aforementioned financial institution has branches.)
From Maggie:
Q: What does a crow say [...]

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Sundries

March 31, 2008 – 3:59 pm

A few goings-on of late that bear mentioning:

Liam has started playing Little League baseball. It’s a load of fun, and significantly more action-packed than Major League, since stealing bases is allowed and the boys aren’t so hot at catching the ball. During the last game, which due to time limits was only 4 innings long, [...]

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My New Favorite Book

March 9, 2008 – 4:56 pm

Last week, Liam brought home a small book that he had created in school. I thought it was great, so am posting its entire text verbatim here. Enjoy!
Playdate with my dad pg 1
“OOOOOOH” this is going to be fun I said gleefuly on an early summer morning.  I am going on a very long play [...]

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Birthday Sculpture

February 16, 2008 – 8:40 am

For her friend Michael’s birthday, Emily made these casts of her hand spelling out “LOVE”, mounted them on a board, and gave them individual paint jobs. It has now assumed a place of honor in his room next to the audio-animatronic Gene Simmons action figure.
Spectacular work, Em!

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2007 In Review

January 4, 2008 – 11:26 pm

Happy New Year All!
Socrates tells us that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” In this era of YouTube exhibitionism, one could extend his maxim to be “the life unexamined by other people is not worth banner ads.” So, in the spirit of the age, welcome to our annual unsolicited “What the Clan McMains is [...]

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A Pragmatist’s Love Song

December 16, 2007 – 7:48 pm

A Pragmatist’s Love Song
I have not fallen in love with you,
as if love were a puddle into which one trips
by accident, and from which one might stumble just as easily.
I am not mad about you,
our love a confused and screaming Bedlam,
filled with unreal fears and phantasms that don’t know truth.
You have not captured my heart,
as [...]

By SeanMcTex | Also posted in Poetry | Comments (2)

Saturday Morning Time Machine

December 8, 2007 – 4:33 pm

This morning, wearily dealing with the weekly bookkeeping chores while Kathy was out shopping, I posted this to my Twitter account:
Paying bills. I think I liked childhood Saturday mornings, packed with sugary cereals and cartoons, better than those of my adult self.
When Kathy arrived home, what should she be bearing but two great big boxes [...]

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