Colin Dullaghan

This one’s largely for our friends Ryan, Sarah and Simeon (Noel), but it goes for you just the same.

Sucky FugitiveOriginally uploaded by This Guy Colin
Before we head out for the holidays, here are a few pictures from around where we live, mostly from my walks in the park with Vince. It’s really pretty here, and quite a contrast from South Carolina, where we spent our last two winters, but I must say it [...]

Okay, so I was getting some complaints about the beard. While I, personally, kind of liked it, and had gotten documented compliments from some old guys in the diner (“Looks good on you,” one elderly gent was heard to say, while the other said, “Like a handsome Alaskan fisherman.” Needless to say, I decided to [...]

Yesterday Penny said, “You know that scene in Star Wars, where Luke Skywalker cuts open that animal thing and climbs inside to stay warm? That’s kind of what I want to do to you.”
I decided to take it as an affectionate urge, rather than homicidal.

This isn’t a new post, but it’s one I’ve always liked. Three years ago or so, I unleashed a polite rant (one of my specialties, it seems, in light of the Young MC post a few weeks back) about the Twelve Days of Christmas.
In reposting I must admit, I was tempted to go back [...]

This post is almost exclusively for my friend Val, who’s in town (well, the country) for only a few weeks until she and her little ones have to go back to Mexico.
It’s also, to a lesser extent, for all the *other* twenty-or-thirty-somethings who once bumped Snoop Dogg on fuzzy speaker boxes in the trunk and [...]

Group Shot, High AngleOriginally uploaded by This Guy Colin
Now that it’s freezing outside and the days are all short and we never leave the house or see our friends or comb our hair, it seems like a good opportunity to remember the time we went to Laguna Beach, California. Two months ago.
As I browse back [...]

“We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
This holiday weekend, Penny and I had guests. It’s not something we’re very experienced with, and it’s probably not even right to call them guests, since we’re related to them and everything, but having [...]