Thoughts of a Middle Aged Man

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Tag archive for ‘Family’

Where everyone is going

My daughter lives here now. Our adopted “son” is already there and owns a house. His wife and their two dogs left our house last night to go here. Annette Will and I are heading there before Christmas, so I thought I would play a commercial for the location.

Helping the kids fly the coop

This has been a hectic week for the Clark household. On Thursday, we move our son out of our house and into the dorms at St. Mary’s college, and then on the following Monday, our daughter leaves for New Zealand to work as a swim instructor, or any other work she can find over [...]

Hotel Clark

The house has been a hotel this summer (not as packed as last summer where international water polo players invaded for the summer). Before and after our family cruise, a lovely family from New Zealand made our home their home away from home while they attended weddings of family members in Southern California and [...]

Two down and none to go

We attended our son’s high school graduation yesterday, leaving my wife and I with no kids in the house (well soon no kids in the house) and two in college. The graduation ceremony for high school has changed in the thirty years since I got my diploma.

Class sizes are bigger (His, 469, mine 250)
Fewer [...]