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Category: SQUIRE TUCK

  • eighteen

    Once upon a time there was a usually sweet boy who lived with a little old woman and her friends in a big yellow building in a small gray town. The boy was usually sweet, which means that sometimes he was not, but only rarely. The little old woman was neither particularly little nor particularly old but…

  • a thousand words

    Old photographs, childhood pictures, the ones you show people after they love you because it's too embarrassing otherwise. The crooked home haircut, the awkward mountain teeth, birthmarks, jangling knock knees. Horrible fashion choices, a combination of a different time and the clothing blindness of children. In photo after photo he is standing with a group…

  • I hope the revolution will be televised.

    If you want to know how I got to have a perfect seventeen year old, I will whisper in your ear that television has been an important part of my child-rearing technique. Among other things, watching television with English subtitles taught him to be a great speller. But maybe more importantly: talking to Squire about…

  • question authority

    A thing that is interesting about teenagers is that they think that much of what adults are doing is wrong. Either the act itself or the reason for it or the way it is done: wrong, wrong, wrong. I remember this feeling myself, as a teenager, that the grown-ups around me had missed some key…

  • “I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.”

    When Squire Tuck was but a wee small thing, I read to him all the time. There were so many books that I had loved as a child and so many books that I had been introduced to as an adult that I wanted him to know, and so little time. And then there were…

  • Frank’s Wild Argument of Insidious Intent

    When Squire was born I thought he was the most amazing thing on the planet, and then when he got to be about a year old I couldn't BELIEVE I had thought that, because obviously one was so much more interesting and fun. It's been like that pretty much every year since. This afternoon I…

  • facts cut a hole in us

    Here is a post where I talk about facts! How about that? Squire was flunking 8th grade because a lot of reasons including but not limited to both of us got really involved in the fourth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He seems to be pulling out of that nosedive and there is much…

  • late birthday present

    For my birthday, Squire said he would destroy my enemies. Apparently my enemies are people who litter, people who stand in the tram doorways, and people who are stupid on the internet. That sounds about right. www.flickr.com/photos/53678649@N00/4672018463/ Someday I will figure out the scanner and then I will be unstoppable.

  • sweetheart, bitter heart

    We had some Drama and Hurt Feelings this weekend. Apparently his friends' visit on Friday was not all that and a bag of chips. They were to come over and play cards and look at his photos from vacation, of which there were maybe a hundred, plus video footage. And the friends were not very…

  • kids these days

    A bunch of kids in Squire's class have facebook accounts. They're posting things that I, as a parent, would not want my child posting. Even if the account is locked, one can still see all the things of which they are "fans" and so on. So for example, I know that this 12 year old…