Category Archives: Children

My Underage Roommates

Posted on 6 March 2012 by cenobyte

Sometimes, you just have to stop thinking of them as your own flesh and blood and start thinking of them as what they really are – your underage roommates. This is how you will begin to understand where we as … Continue reading →

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The only light you’ll see

Posted on 8 February 2012 by cenobyte

I wrote a note to The Captain’s teacher and vice principal today. Actually, I wrote the note yesterday, but guess who forgot to give it to his teacher until this morning? On my way to work, I got a call … Continue reading →

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Sage Words of Advice

Posted on 22 November 2011 by cenobyte

“I really really wish that it wasn’t just expected that boys are supposed to ask girls out on a date. Because all of the guys I know are super shy and are terrified of asking girls out on a date. … Continue reading →

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This seems backward

Posted on 6 October 2011 by cenobyte

The public health region has begun, in the recent past, to provide vaccines for Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) (or would that be ‘provide vaccines against HPV’?). HPV is a communicable virus (duh, cenobyte. “Virus” is in the name.) that can … Continue reading →

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Happy-making

Posted on 4 October 2011 by cenobyte

The Captain phoned me at work today. I saw the number come up on my phone, and so I answered with: “WHO IS THIS?” He said, after a brief pause: “…there’s no need for names, Ma’am.” That is all.

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Things I Do Not Need

Posted on 3 October 2011 by cenobyte

So. I am having two Minor Conflicts.   One: One set of Grandparents seems to think The Captain needs a cell phone. I do not want The Captain to have a cell phone, for a number of reasons, and shockingly, … Continue reading →

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Angles and Corners

Posted on 6 August 2011 by cenobyte

These boys are all skinny legs and large, awkward feet. You see the way they stand and listen to their coaches, and you see glimpses of the men they will become – in the angle of a hip; in the … Continue reading →

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SCIENCE!!!

Posted on 28 June 2011 by cenobyte

“Wouldn’t it be cool,” The Captain said just now, before going to school for his last day of fifth grade,”if we could cross-breed insects and arthropods and then control them? Then we could cross a tick with a mosquito with … Continue reading →

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Tent-caterpillar

Posted on 23 June 2011 by cenobyte

He’s just a baby now, you said, holding the fuzzy blue-and-black caterpillar on your hand. When he touches me it’s like little tickles, his baby feet and fingers are soft. But he will grow and change, you know. Soon he’ll … Continue reading →

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Some things do surprise me

Posted on 2 April 2011 by cenobyte

Do you realise it’s been fewer than twenty years since Apartheid was officially abolished in South Africa? For a social studies project in elementary school in the 80s, I did a report about Apartheid. No one in my class had … Continue reading →

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