A joke in the traditional manner
Q. Which member of the orchestra was best at handling money?
Dad the tooter
My son Ben has revealed a misunderstanding from his childhood.
Ghostwriter blurb writer
I had forgotten all about going to bat for the series.
Things to do in Los Angeles
An incomplete list.
Rachel and Seth
A wedding photograph.
A very big day
Rachel and Seth.
Thelonious Monk
“Years ago, years and years and years ago, my children would occasionally spend a morning on campus with me on days off from school. On one such occasion, my son Ben labeled a poster of Thelonious Monk in my office.”
Ghostwriter
At YouTube.
Familial music
Rachel Leddy and Ben Leddy play and sing Jesca Hoop’s “Enemy.”
Things my children no longer say
“It’s rally, rally, rally cold. It’s f-f-f-f-freeeeezing.”
“Tap the Map!”
A fifty-states song. Words and music by Ben Leddy.
DSONGS
This fragment lives on my desk, a scrap of fambly papyrus.
Food for thought
Michael Apted (the Up series) on what family life gives us.
Familial music, no. 2
Our fambly interprets “I Want You Back.”
Familial music, no. 1
Rachel Leddy and Ben Leddy sing and play “No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature.”
Family accounting
“Tickets for four to see Les Misérables: $34. Champagne cocktails and one family member’s imitation of Anne Hathaway’s mouth: priceless.”
Ben Leddy is blogging
My son Ben, writing online