Category: My Yeti Life
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"There is a formative period in the life of families during which parents and kids don’t just live with each other, they create each other." –from David James Duncan’s River Teeth At times, I must admit, my lovely daughters feel a bit like appendages. I don’t mean that in a burdened, dragging-me-down, oh-I-wish-I-wasn’t-a-Siamese-twin sort of…
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I don’t have much to report. So here are a few random pictures… Happy Chinese New Year! We’ve been welcoming in the Year of the Pig this week here in Xining. (This photo was taken in Thailand however.) Just more theatrics. Last year at conference I got to be Death in a drama. This year…
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Well, we Johnsons (and Wolverine’s parents) survived the "bug" of Suan Bua. It was a good week of encouragement (other than the sickness) and warm-sun style refreshment. We’re now back in Bangkok (which is also quite warm) having completed flight #12 today of the 14 flights that made up this two month odyssey taking us…
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Hinting sometimes works. For my birthday gift, my parents and in-laws went in on getting me this hip looking yeti jacket. (Thanks folks! Now this super-blogger has an appropriate costume.) I’m like a kid who wants to wear the same clothes every day of the week; if I could figure out a way to sleep…
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I turn 33 today. That feels pretty old to me. If I live to be a 100 that means that I’ve just completed the first third of my life. Hmmmm, guess I should be thinking about what I want to do with the remaining two-thirds. I told Anna that Jesus probably died when he was…
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I have an amazing grasp for the obvious. Coming back to America (after 1.5 years in Asia) shows that this skill has been sharpened in me quite a bit. Here are my latest observations– being back in my home land… We have a LOT of cars here. And by a lot I mean a TON…
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I started my life in the era before the prominence of VCRs and cable TV. Before my family bit the bullet and bought cable, I remember that you could only catch cartoons (or children’s programming) in the afternoons usually sandwiched between reruns of Gilligan’s Island and (ugh) Andy Griffith. (Note: In the 1980s, if the…
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My mom has been doing some good blog posts highlighting great family Halloween costumes from the past. (She posts them and then I steal the pictures! It’s a great setup.) She dredged this one up today of yours truly, circa 1991, during my "goth"* period. I didn’t dress like this every day, but I must…
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Here’s a Christmas gift idea for me. (I know you’re all out there wondering what do you get a guy who has everything?) Here it is: a yeti jacket. (Cool, huh? The downside is that it costs $78.00! But, hey, I think I’m worth it…)
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Congrats to my mom on her one-year bloggiversary! She posted a nice picture of a familiar yeti in his formative years–which you can check out here… "Oh sure, laugh it up, fuzzball!" The obsession with hairy folks started at a young age. What can I say?
yeti speak... 