Let the record note: these ludicrous allegations being spread around the internet that Howard K. Stern might be the legitimate father of baby Jack Skelton are totally and completely false, and frankly WILL NOT STAND! My mother reminds me from time to time that when I was born it was during the time of the …
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JMS is One-Month-Old Today
Things move along at a rapid pace here in babyland. Jack is already adventuring into his fifth week on planet Earth. As parents we are still in the fog that comes from round the clock newborn care. I’ve become a bit edgy from all the sleep deprivation. The other morning one of the neighbors began …
Neurosis & Nightmares
Like some strange haunting, I’ve become fully inflicted with Phantom Crying Neurosis (PCN). I hear baby Jack crying even when he’s blissfully under the spell of slumber. It’s like a prerecorded MP3 tucked into the tiny folds of my brain that gets randomly inserted into the playlist of life. Or like a bad pop song …
The Portland Pill
I have to say, I love the new Tram that’s running here in Portland. I don’t care if I never even ride the darn thing, I just like seeing it in action. The other morning I was driving down I-5 through some intense low lying fog. Just as I was driving under the tram cables, …
The Best Of You
If someone were to have told me yesterday that Prince was going to play a Foo Fighters cover during the Super Bowl halftime show, I would have slapped them and challenged them to a duel for spreading such lies. And yet, this did actually happen. What a cool world we live in sometimes. Funk Soul …
Margaritaville
I can hear the boy beginning to squeak through the baby monitor so I’m not sure how much time he’s going to allow me to write anything of consequence. Those wee little monitors control my life now and bark furious orders and bold proclamations. Things are definitely on his schedule and he’s the big boss. …
Dawn: When Men Of Reason Go To Bed.
It’s weird to think that at this point the cats are more self sufficient and smarter about cleaning up after their poop then baby Jack is. Basically, at this point, I feel like I’ve been reduced to an underpaid city Outflow Clean-up Engineer. If it’s disgusting, smells terrible, and springs forth from a living orifice, …
The Delivery
We just got Jack home a few hours ago. It’s been a blurry couple of days. How do I even begin to write this post? How do I even keep my eyes open and my mind centered long enough to compose my thoughts? When I started this blog oh so many years ago, I never …
Day One: The New Jack Swing
Jack Michael Skelton Born: January 18th, 2007 at 8:53 am. Nine pounds, one ounce. 21 inches. Everyone is doing well. Mom & Dad are exhausted. More to follow. Hopefully in the next couple of days.
Slammin’ The White Forest
Whoa. Portland got all jacked up yesterday. We were sucker punched by a super sneaky snow storm that no one predicted. Like everyone else here in Portland, the news weather hooligans are completely high. Only they must have a direct pipeline to the super hairy purple buds, because they are consistently so incredibly off the …