What an incredibly joyous reason to write a post. I am so happy to introduce Hanover Robinson Gottlock to you all! Our dear friends (and former TGW contributers) Brian and Robbins Gottlock welcomed their first son into the world last Thursday November 12, 2009, at 8:54 AM. He arrived 3.5 weeks premature and weighed in [...]
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Warmest welcomes
You might have seen this when it went viral last week, but in case not, here’s the most incredibly touching welcome home I’ve ever seen: It turns out that there are a spate of such “welcome home” videos, showing soldiers returning from the Middle East to rapturous receptions from their kids… … and their dogs: [...]
Were your parents awesome?
I’ve been perusing a new website called “My Parents Were Awesome.” It’s a compilation of photos people have sent in, showing their parents 20, 30, 40 years ago, when they were young and hip and fashionable. Or, younger and hipper and fashionabler, anyway. I like this site because the older parents get, the easier it [...]
CHD: Short one towel.
I settle down at the computer to write a Whatsit post when four gun shots ring out from the street directly in front of our house. This happens within the hour of my typing these words, the night before my post is due, and the helis only stop buzzing the neighborhood in the last five [...]
Oh, brother
I’ve written about my brother several times on TGW, mostly reminiscences from our childhood days. He and I were natural antagonists: the overachieving, tattletale younger sister and the older brother whose approval she always sought, usually unsuccessfully. My memories of our childhood are mostly good ones, though; even when my brother and I fought, the [...]
Dance of death
As a teenager I remember a brilliant production of August Strindberg’s Dance of Death at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, England with Edward Fox. The vicious, toxic marriage of Edgar and Alice struck a deep chord. I am currently trapped in a lovely cottage in a small village in the north of England with [...]
Crack House Diary: Ten Cents and the birth of Cain
I’m not sure how I’m going to handle this story about my dogs. If I complete the story it will span two or three Whatsit entries, and it will end with our taking what should have been two members of our family to an animal shelter, where they were left behind and never seen by [...]
Interviewing Asa shortly after his 10th Birthday
Asa recently turned 10 years old. When I was a kid I remember my dad would occasionally make me endure what he formally called the “Father Son Chat.” To honor the memory of sons getting grilled by dads, I decided to inflict the same on Asa. He was a good sport. Rogan: So Asa, you [...]
