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Tim Martin

A Dad’s Nicknames

Someday, I suspect that these nicknames will have left me, but for now, they each belong to one of my girls.  Can you guess whose they are? Oakaloo Malouda Spinosa  

Bologna, one frame at a time

I decided to experiment with an iPhone app called “Timelapse” to see how it would do capturing a soccer game.  So, I stuck the thing on the cross bar and compressed 45 minutes of soccer into 5.

100% Sucks

At a soccer meeting about a year ago, some sage coach told us, the parents, the following.  ”If a soccer team is losing 90% of their games, someone is doing something wrong.  If a soccer team is winning 90% of their games, someone is doing something wrong.” You see, kids …

Another Author?

The following text is published as written in Lindy’s book she brought home from school today.  (Her handwriting is lovely, but I’d have to destroy the book to share that with you via a scan, so we’ll just go with text for today.) The Bee Who Loved to Sing Yay! …

Oakley’s Happy Birthday Wish… to Me

Daddy is playful. He is the best daddy you could ever have; even if you searched the whole entire world.  Daddy is the man of the family, just like our chicken Solo is the man of his roost.  Sometimes, though, he will beat up the lower man of the roost, …