Colin Dullaghan

After a couple close calls in the famously forbidding Fire Swamp, Westley, formerly known as the Dread Pirate Roberts, offered the following sage reassurance to Princess Buttercup, who was growing doubtful they’d emerge alive:
“No, no. We have already succeeded. I mean, what are the three terrors of the Fire Swamp? One, the flame spurt [...]

We’re letting Mom sleep a little bit right now, playing in the light by the window, making some coffee and listening to the latest Weepies album. But she wanted to say Hi, so I told her I could probably type one-handed.

Why have I taken so long to update the blog and tell you what Veda’s up to? I’ve been too busy taking pictures of her, that’s why!
(She’s wonderful, by the way. See for yourself. This is the whole story of her birth, from labor to coming home. That first one is Lope hiking in the [...]

She and Penny are napping in the recliner right now, both dreaming by the looks of their eyelids. Me, I’m tapping quietly on the laptop, looking through the massive folder of pictures and video I took at the hospital — so many pictures, in fact, that I had to put them all on this computer [...]

At slightly after midnight, Penny started having contractions. Severe ones. She doubled over in the bed and had to get down on her hands and knees, while I rubbed her back and stroked her hair.
At slightly after one, we called Brooke, the doula, and woke her up. The contractions were only a few minutes apart, [...]

No baby yet. Just let me get that out of the way right now, and you can continue on your web surfing as planned.
But meanwhile, thanks to Wordle.net, I was just now kind of able to do what Wee suggested a few days ago: create a cloud of words found on this site. It’s [...]

There’s no shortage of reasons to be afraid of what’s about to happen to Penny and me.
In fact, we’ve been mentally categorizing the people we know and who offer their support and advice to us into a couple of handy categories. There’s the “Babies are Terrible” camp, in which people seem to really enjoy telling [...]

Thanks, ODB!Originally uploaded by This Guy Colin
Imagine our surprise this week upon receiving a package in the mail from Ol’ Dirty Bastard. I mean, us — a writer and artist living in the middle of Indiana — getting mail from an illustrious and deceased member of the Wu-Tang Clan! it boggles the mind.
I noticed he [...]

The baby could come any day now.
And while my wife creates amazing art that embodies peace and patience and gentle maternal welcome, I pass the time by tinkering with electronics. After setting up Penny’s new scanner and checking out the baby monitor and charging all *three* of the spare batteries we have for the new [...]

The way I see it, there are three ways to pick a name for your kid. You may have others, but we narrowed it down thusly:
People. You can choose the name of some historical figure you admire. I thought of Marie Curie right away, but then remembered that she died prematurely of radiation poisoning as [...]