Colin Dullaghan

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:Top Thrill Dragster is a steel, hydraulically-launched roller coaster located at Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio. It was the first “Strata Coaster,” loosely defined as a complete circuit coaster that is between 400-499 feet tall. It was built by Intamin AG and debuted to the public on May [...]

[I started this a few days ago, hoping to finish it before my actual birthday today]
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As I approach the age of 32 here in the next week or so, I guess I’m supposed to be feeling depressed about it.
“My best years are behind me,” supposedly, and it’s true that my body isn’t as indestructible [...]

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Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories: And Other Disasters by Jean Shepherd
My review
rating: 4 of 5 starsLaugh-out-loud funny stories from a master, in my opinion. Nobody does tongue in cheek gravitas applied to kid life better. Favorite story so far is “County Fair!”, but they’re all pretty similar. BONUS: In [...]

Take note: as a good many email forwards and signs on local bulletin boards may have told you, today represents a momentous occasion, chronologically speaking.
Just before 5 a.m. today, if I’d have been fully conscious (I’d actually just drifted back off to sleep, after Veda helpfully tried to wake me for the occasion) I could [...]

After she’d handled a particularly tricky bout of getting Veda to sleep this evening, I offered Lope a little apple pie à la mode. When I cut the slice, I noticed that I must have really wanted her to have a nice treat — you can kind of see where my knife-edge swerved a little [...]

Penny and her mom, Sept. 1977
Veda and her mom, June 2009
“…there is the unmistakable in-the-middleness that parenthood illuminates for you — the realization that you might not actually be the center of the universe after all, but that it *does* surround you, in time as well as space … You see that just as sure [...]

Yes, now that Veda’s officially four and a half months old (which, incidentally, is my favorite number, and I meant to celebrate when she was four and a half weeks old, since after this my next chance is when she’s four and a half years old, in August of 2013, and I hope to be [...]