About

Tim is a freelance writer and designer who works for Myself, a business that has been thumbing its nose at The Man for five years now. He’s both a stay-at-home (sounds better than ‘kept man’) and a work-at-home-and-anywhere-else-I-can-get-away-with-it dad. 

He does not care for pina coladas, and since we’re in the midst of an 800-year drought, he’s not likely to get caught in the rain anytime soon. Tim is a proud, self-professed geek. He feels better about his expanding midsection by expressing it in terms of pi. Tim was recently crowned Most Valuable Drinker by the Coffee Growers of the World.

Mary has some long, incomprehensible job title and has worked for The-Company-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named (TCTSNBN) for the past ten years. She’s starting a new job at TCTSNBN that reportedly has achieved the metric of sucking 75% less than her former position. 

Mary is affectionately known in our house as “Mary-pedia” for her vast knowledge of random trivia, particularly in pioneer-era practices and all things rural. She can churn butter with a paper clip. She has read out three branches of the local library system. Monitor glow makes her even sexier. 

The J-Man (aka Mister Man, Cutest Boy Ever, Little Buddy, Monkey Man, Mini-Us, the J-Train, Jo Jo, and The Center of the Known Universe) is our two-year-old son. He’s working through the challenges of Sensory Processing Disorder, ‘oral defensiveness’ (aka I Hate Things Near or In My Mouth, or Feeding-Fu), severe speech delays, motor planning issues, and the rest of the stuff that comes from being two. Most likely he has apraxia of speech as well. An evaluation for autism spectrum disorder is on the horizon. Stay tuned.

In the face of these challenges, he brightens every room he walks into and bravely faces every barrier put in front of him. His favorite direction is up, which fills us with hope.