Michael Spohr, Maddie’s dad, posted an unbelievably touching and tear-inducing post about his little girl on his blog. Heather’s speech, which she evidently delivered at the service, is posted here. They are both devastating. Read them, but get the tissues before hand. Interested in how twitter can be used to rally a movement for a [...]
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The Internet is a curious thing. I’ve been doing the daddy blogger thing for almost a year now, and have made some great relationships with other bloggers. I follow their adventures, their familial evolutions, their ups and downs, just as they do mine. It is an amazing thing to develop a connection with someone who [...]
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Michael’s fish, Leaf, is dying. He, the killer of Lucy, has slipped into a sideways funk and has been bobbing softly on a bed of aquarium rock, breathing slowly and without hope. It is a sad picture, to be sure. This was day three of Leaf’s slow demise, and Raging Mom and I are hoping [...]
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About a month ago I told you about my friend Kristen who was raising her gloves one last time in her match against cancer. Along with her partner, whom she had married in a lovely lake shore ceremony in September, she fought cancer for almost two years. It began in her ovaries and coursed its [...]
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I‘ve been thinking a lot, lately, about friends. Part of it is that I have reconnected on Facebook with a passel of high school and college classmates who I’d lost touch with. You know what? I did not expect to have such a good time reconnecting with who I was not so close with, seeing [...]
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Today we laid Sonny’s fish, Lucy, to rest. She died a violent death, her fragile fins irreversibly damaged by Michael’s cruel fish, Leaf. Since Connie has experienced the ups and downs of pet ownership, we decided that the boys could have goldfish for their birthday. When they joined the Raging Household, all seemed well in [...]
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Alright, Raging Readers. Today I am welcoming a guest to my Raging Blog. You’re asking, “How cool is that?” It’s pretty cool. The wonderfully bad mother over at Her Bad Mother came up with this event–a Bitchfest–where people who need to gripe and didn’t feel like they could do it on their own sites could [...]
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Dear Connie, I am writing this confession to you, for when you are older. Someday, you will read this and I hope that you will not think me a cruel man for the choices that your mother and I have made. Yesterday, I killed your kitty. The vet injected her with the poison, but it [...]
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The last two weeks saw several milestones and anniversaries for my Raging Family and me. Most notably, Aug. 1 marked two years since moving from the Twin Cities to Portland. It was our second visit back to Minnesota since the big move, and it was a very important trip for our family, especially Raging Mom. [...]
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My twin boys are almost four years old, and about a year ago I let them watch Star Wars Episode I. Considering the importance of Star Wars to me as a kid, I was eager to share the adventures with them; at age three, it was a questionable parenting move. [Editor's note: I started them [...]
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