Colin Dullaghan

Define “cute.” Go ahead. I’ll wait.
It’s kind of like… uh, pretty, but in a wholesome, innocent way. And boys can be it too. For a while. Old boys — men, I guess — can’t really be cute, or at least can’t be called it, but women can. Girls too. Girls especially. Beautiful? No, that’s something [...]

Just got back this Holga picture, taken from the bottom of the street by our house. I’ll admit the sepia tone is cheating a bit, but doesn’t it look like this could have been discovered tucked inside an old bureau or something?
If you ignore the lightpost, I mean?
Not sure who the two people are, either, [...]

Have you noticed that YouTube comments are pretty much the bottom of the barrel in terms of incisive commentary and human compassion?
Here we have these people, in this free online community, sharing clips from and of their lives, with the whole world, with no personal gain in sight, and what to they get? Bombarded with [...]

On Sunday, we met our friends Rachel and Kendal up in North Webster for a ride on “The Dixie,” Indiana’s oldest sternwheel sightseeing boat.
I think Veda liked it.

I saw this amazing photograph in an article this morning and was so intrigued I had to read the whole thing, plus comments.
Taken by a fellow by the name of Ben Long, the pic depicts Monument Valley at midnight, and everything you see in the picture was illuminated only by the light of a full [...]

You know when you’re dorking around with your Holga camera, scampering all over county fairs and train cars and up to the top of curly slides?
And you know how sometimes the local camera shop doesn’t have any 120-medium format film in stock, just some *220* stuff with twice as many exposures, but no paper backing?
And [...]

Trying to pick up some nutmeg at the store the other day. Hoping to get Penelope to make this zucchini bread she keeps promising us.
Threw a minor hissy fit about the price of the various jars of nutmeg in the spice aisle, then realized how poor my chances would be of ever procuring nutmeg [...]

I realize I hadn’t updated the Veda pictures in, oh, half the kid’s life. It’s been a busy summer, I guess, and uploading stuff to Flickr is a lot like posting new stuff here — it’s hard to argue that it’s important enough to force Penny to babysit.
Picture Lope in one room, wiping barf off [...]

It’s been one year today since Alison died. A lot has happened since then, and it still makes me sad that she never got to meet Veda — not on the outside, anyway (She did say hello through Penelope’s belly once or twice, which was fun), but I can say that now I’m back to [...]

Here’s some stuff that’s been zinging around in my head lately. It’s all things I wonder about, and unfortunately they’re all the sort of inquiries Google’s little help with.
1. What will be different for us because Veda’s a girl? So far the main distinction I’ve noticed is that Penny seems positively gigantic. Seriously, after giving [...]