Uncle Roger's Notebooks of Daily Life


Saturday, December 31, 2005

Favorites

This month's challenge was posted by Dugh and, as usual, it's a good one. The idea is to pick five posts of which you are particularly proud.

First off, my favorites would have to be a type of post I really wish I did more of -- Tales of the kids. Posts like Shower Quote, Bye Da-dee! and ROI. Of course, along with those are the comments about parenting like The Kid Factor, The Three Laws of Parenting, Two Kids = One House, and the classic How Old?.

I also enjoyed last year's December challenge -- thanking those folks who really made a difference in my life. People like my Dad, Rachel, Craig, Harry, Daniel, and so on. Looking back, I see I didn't get to everyone I should have, but it's a good start.

I did a few posts related to the subject of wealth -- a topic that weighs heavy on my mind in that I have mixed feelings about what I have even as I yearn for more. I touched on cheating and generosity and guilt, but I still have a lot of questions and issues regarding this topic. It's definitely something I want to explore more.

In a similar vein, I enjoyed the discussion generated by my post about Time or Money. I definitely still prefer time to money, as necessary as money is. Okay, so perhaps this is part of the whole wealth discussion, but I did enjoy this.

Is that five? Well, close enough. I suppose I could include posts from the previous incarnation of this journal, but as I'm late anyway, I'll leave it at this.



Journal Description

My life is, to me, ripe with frequent challenges, occasional successes, spontaneous laughter, adequate tears, and enough *life* to last me a lifetime. To you, however, it surely seems most pedestrian. And therefore, I recycle the name I used previously and call this my Notebooks of Daily Life. Daily, because it's everyday in nature, ordinary. These conglomeration of events that are my life are of interest to me because I live it, perhaps mildly so to those who are touched by it, and could only be of perverse, morbid curiosity to anyone else. Yet, I offer them here nonetheless. Make of them what you will, and perhaps you can learn from my mistakes.

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