August 2010
6 posts
thoughts from a dad brain...
on the romeo subject…
my father after a while to ponder stops in and says, “you may not be romeo, but he is definately Juliet.”
then we had a nice laugh.
i doubt this is a good literary reference, but my dad is poking at his maleness which is exactly what i needed to hear.
go team dad
seaschel asked: I feel like we're super similar people. Its rather scary, actually. So, dear friend, thanks for sharing your thoughts on here. Its nice to know we're not alone.
my life as romeo
while forcing myself to run on the eliptical for an hour tonight (in hopes one day i won’t cringe at the thought of wearing a bathing suit) i discovered that i may in fact be romeo.
shortly after making this profound discovery, i try to explain to my father who immediately informs me that i am not a boy. this is a great way to summarize the rhythm of most of our conversations. except...
i have so much to say.
i’ve been running a lot lately. i mean a lot in the sense that I am doing it twice a day the way drug addicts replace behaviors with other healthy behaviors in order to help get better but, nevertheless, i am not a drug addict. and i am not sure which behavior i am replacing. but it feels good. i feel like an 8 yr old again. free and alive. and the faster and longer i run, the more i...
