Colin Dullaghan


July 2008


Home Invaders

25 July, 2008

This house shopping stuff is tough. Not only because they all have their merits, and all have their compromises (especially given our requests versus our budget), and not even because they all start to look alike after awhile.
It’s just that you feel so *terrible* about tromping through all these people’s homes and then not buying [...]

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Home Invaders


This house shopping stuff is tough. Not only because they all have their merits, and all have their compromises (especially given our requests versus our budget), and not even because they all start to look alike after awhile.
It’s just that you feel so *terrible* about tromping through all these people’s homes and then not buying [...]

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Home Invaders


This house shopping stuff is tough. Not only because they all have their merits, and all have their compromises (especially given our requests versus our budget), and not even because they all start to look alike after awhile.
It’s just that you feel so *terrible* about tromping through all these people’s homes and then not buying [...]

Read more >>

 

Kooler Katie

18 July, 2008

I may have mentioned before how cool my little sister is. And now I’d like to announce that she’s even cooler — sorry, “kooler” — because she just had her 28th birthday.
Like Penny, I firmly believe we improve with age, and even though I can’t do some of the things I used to do (in [...]

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Kooler Katie


I may have mentioned before how cool my little sister is. And now I’d like to announce that she’s even cooler — sorry, “kooler” — because she just had her 28th birthday.
Like Penny, I firmly believe we improve with age, and even though I can’t do some of the things I used to do (in [...]

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Kooler Katie


I may have mentioned before how cool my little sister is. And now I’d like to announce that she’s even cooler — sorry, “kooler” — because she just had her 28th birthday.
Like Penny, I firmly believe we improve with age, and even though I can’t do some of the things I used to do (in [...]

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Aptitude Is Nothing

11 July, 2008

The other day we had a kid here in the studio with us: Abby, 9-year-old niece of my sister-in-law. In addition to being bright, friendly and astonishingly energetic, Abby reminded me of something I’m embarrassed to admit I’d forgotten.
She was drawing with Penny, exploring all the paints and supplies at the art table. She eventually [...]

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Fun Is, Meaning Equals, Good


Now, even though our art is far better than it was when we started — when we loved to create it — it’s not good enough. It doesn’t look like the real thing. Sometimes at this stage we notice that other kids (like Penny) can draw a convincing bird, or truck, or mountain, and we get discouraged.

We decide that those kids are good at art, and we’re not. Our artistic career is over before it started.

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Stronger Than Before

7 July, 2008

You might not know this, but I’ve got a broken index finger. On my right hand, which I do favor. It’s healed now; don’t get me wrong; I wouldn’t want you to think I was typing this with a crippled appendage or anything, but the fact remains that it was once broken, by Penny in [...]

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Self Reliance Might Have Worked For Ralph Waldo Emerson

4 July, 2008

“We” moved out of South Carolina.
I say this because we have a new address and new surroundings and a whole new batch of stuff to discover and explore, but I put the first word in quotes because it’s not entirely true.
There is no way on earth, nor in South Carolina or Indiana, that Penny and [...]

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Self Reliance Might Have Worked For Ralph Waldo Emerson


“We” moved out of South Carolina.
I say this because we have a new address and new surroundings and a whole new batch of stuff to discover and explore, but I put the first word in quotes because it’s not entirely true.
There is no way on earth, nor in South Carolina or Indiana, that Penny and [...]

Read more >>

 

Self Reliance Might Have Worked For Ralph Waldo Emerson


“We” moved out of South Carolina.
I say this because we have a new address and new surroundings and a whole new batch of stuff to discover and explore, but I put the first word in quotes because it’s not entirely true.
There is no way on earth, nor in South Carolina or Indiana, that Penny and [...]

Read more >>