I Get the Best Emails – Ongoing
To: Kate
From: Doc
Subject: A Christmas Prayer
Dear Lord,
Thank you for another year… I know I probably didn’t do as much as you wanted me to, but thanks for forgiving me for that, too.
Thank you for looking out for me again this year… and thank you for the people I met, good and bad. Take care of [...]
Family Quotes I’m Allowed to Share
Some people complain about family. They write somber novels, produce trite movies, and drink themselves silly in some vain attempt to forget their roots and erase from memory about a trillion bad experiences.
Poor bastards.
Clearly they’ve never partied with the Durkin clan of northeastern Pennsylvania, where the good always outweighs the bad. There are different last [...]
2008 – The Year in Pee Yoo
Is anyone really sorry to see 2008 bite the dust? Filled with great joys and sorrows, this year blasted our conscience and bowels. What’s up with ABC canceling Boston Legal? Let’s review the last twelve months that took us from Colorado to Florida, and how it affected your favorite family of freak shows.
December – Oldest [...]
A Facebook Conversation – Ongoing
The family and I took a little road trip. To Scranton. Pennsylvania. In the wintertime.
My cousin got married a few months back and so we’re going to celebrate his nuptials with big to-do tonight at the Parish Center. In Scranton. Pennsylvania.
On the way, while reading, listening to music, yelling at my children to pipe down, [...]
Best Songs of the Season
These are my favorite Holiday songs. In no particular order…
Two of the most beautiful faces and voices in music…
Sing along with me…
And my kids’ favorite…
Hands down, no one sings this better…
And the absolute best…without question.
Happy Happy Happy Chanukah
It bears repeating…
Chanukah. Eight crazy nights.
In our house, we break it down with a different theme each evening. Try these ideas and add them to your own celebration:
1st Night – Fun: Has to be something enjoyable. No other redeeming value necessary.
2nd Night – Homemade: The gift must be our own creation. Poem. Rant. Rave. Or [...]
Who Wears Old Spice Anyway?
The cologne that smells like alcoholic traveling salesmen smells even worse now.
Old Spice sponsored a contest recently through an all-things-penis-y blog called ‘The Art of Manliness.’ This site focuses on “uncovering the lost art of being a man.”
I sh*t you not.
I’ve been to the Ale House on Sunday afternoons. It ain’t lost and it ain’t [...]
Catherine Durkin Robinson
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she’s crafty
