Author: Backpacking Dad

I’m going to begin in the middle, proceed to 16 years before the middle, continue to the beginning, and then get to the end. I’ve been told that sometimes it helps to give your readers a little introductory topic sentence that lays out the roadmap. So there’s mine. Do you also want a compass? The…

My parents were cruel. When I asked (fine: yelled, screamed, begged, pleaded, bribed) for a Nintendo for Christmas when I was 10 or 11 (I don’t remember which) they came to me on Christmas Eve to say they were very sorry, but they couldn’t find a Nintendo anywhere. It was the hot toy that year….

Catherine over at Her Bad Mother had this little epiphany for pre-BlogHer introductions (and also a good meme idea for those who aren’t terribly self-conscious about their Internet footprint): Google yourself and list 5 things about yourself that are floating around out there, known only to Google. Most of my Internet (did you know that’s…