Seismology in the life of Otis You don’t have to undertsand much about tectonics or seismology to appreciate what’s happening in the state of Washington right now. If the line of satellite news trucks...
Head from the clouds When you’re inland, mountains to your north, long trailing foothills to your south, and stretches of interstate to your east and west, your view of the world is as through...
Otis, the sicko A proper man, the kind that averts his eyes when driving by a bloody wreck, would not look in the rearview mirror like I do. A good fellow, the kind that...
Finding my inner Muppet “This is news. This is what we do.” The television news photographer had just been released from duty, released to drive through the outer bands of Tropical Storm Ivan, through...
Let it rain, I’ve got clarity anyway I think better when I’m naked. Some of the clearest moments in my life, some of the most defining decisions have come when I’m buck ass, damn...
From platter to cocktail napkin Buzzwords are the bastard sons of the catch phrase. Perhaps if it weren’t for the invention of the computer, we’d have never heard the word “multitasking.” That is, after...
Labor Day In a matter of five minutes, the room had…evolved. The party had gone on for some time as a small gathering of me and three pretty women, each with their own job...
Daddy’s little rocker …too little time to type (and fortunately, too little time to turn RER into a baby news site), but I thought all my friends and readers would want to see how...
I’m not naming my kid… …Jason, if it is born today, Friday the 13th. …Joe, even though Chelle had false labor in Joe’s Crab Shack. …Charley, even though a hurricane by the same name...
Dial “W” for Waiting ——–UPDATED BELOW——– The end of this post contains the updated list of entries for the Baby Otis Watch. Frankie wants to rebuy for August 15th. I haven’t decided how I...
NEW UPDATES 8/5: Your predictions, please—-UPDATE has been UPDATED…ONCE AGAIN Okay, I can’t stand it. There has to be some sort of contest on my future baby’s birthdate. A few readers already chimed in...
Boy, girl, or monkey? On the screen above my head, the Maury Povich show is quietly broadcasting screaming mothers and would-be fathers in the timeless tale of paternity tests and the men who hate...
But he was posting so much… Yeah, he was. And I will more, hopefully soon. Thing is, work is a little busy (15 months of my life are culminating in one courtroom),...
