Daily Archives: May 21, 2009

A small set of photos.

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Dan| Leave a comment

From my backyard.

DSC_2110 DSC_2112 DSC_2111 DSC_2117
Share

→ Leave a comment

Posted in One More Shot

The Economics of Bubbles

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Dan| 2 Comments
DSC_2120

Click me!

My daughter is infatuated with things that are composed of 99% air.  So why am I spending so much money on them?

The items that I’m talking about, of course, are bubbles and balloons.  Loves them.  LOVES them.  She likes to blow bubbles.   She likes to (try and) hold bubbles.  She likes bubbles in her bathtub, bubbles in her milk.  And balloons?  Balloons she adores.  If she were just a few years older, we’d be seeing Pixar‘s Up this summer.  As it is, she’s been dragging around a mostly deflated balloon that we got from Red Robins a few nights back as if it were her best friend in the world.

But bubbles…bubbles are where her joy lies.  And I swear it’ll break me.

Continue reading →

Share

→ 2 Comments

Posted in One More Shot