Happy 4th!
As you probably have guessed, I will be pretty scarce till Monday due to our National Birthday Party. Here in America, the Land of Freedom, (ably demonstrated by Harry Potter cast members speaking the...
View ArticleWe are Off to Our Hidden Island Redoubt!
It’s Labor Day Weekend and the Shea Clan is headed off for some much needed rest and relaxation after a strenuous summer of work. You kids have a fine time your own selves and don’t put no beans up...
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What I Saw on Our Hidden Island Redoubt
This past Friday the Swiss Family Shea and friends took off for our Hidden Island Redoubt. Evidently we left just in time and avoided some kind of controversy in St. Blog’s. Good. I much prefer how I...
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Eternal Memory
This was taken at an Easter Egg Hunt in 1963 when I was four. On this day, exactly 30 years ago in 1983, my Dad died. Here is a chapter from Salt and Light I offer in his honor. I love you and miss...
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Update on Life at Chez Shea
So Jan and I were invited out to Chicago’s Marytown for the annual New Year’s Young Adult Retreat for the Militia Immaculata. We sort of wound up becoming the Cute Old Couple Den Father and Mother...
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As Christmas fades…
One thing that makes its passing easier is contemplation of the fact that Ugly Christmas Sweaters are now a thing of the past:Merry Last Day of Christmas from the Silly Sheas!
View ArticleHopeful News for My Mom
My brother writes:The consultation with the radiologist went very well. He confirmed it was stage 3A cancer. His estimate was that radiation alone was the best treatment. That mom would not feel any...
View ArticlePeeking Eggs
So just now, I went to the fridge to get a glass of milk. (We Sheas are inveterate milk drinkers. Milk! Fruit of the Bovine! Work of Bossy’s glands. It shall become for us our corporeal drink! But...
View ArticleI both swell with paternal pride and burn with shame
Help me, I am trapped in a haiku factory! Save me, before they- Peter Shea
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My Son the Walrus
Yr. Obdt. Svt., Peter the Goofy, and a possibly puzzled Fr. Marcin at a recent parish ice cream social:
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Today is our Anniversary
Practically everything you need to know about my heart is in this photo:Though something of our relationship is also captured here:Happy 31st, my beloved Janet!
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Am at Retina Specialists Northwest this AM for Jan’s eye
So Jan was off doing her customary work of selfless generosity to a friend yesterday when she noticed something in her left eye’s field of vision. When she got in bright sunlight it became pronounced....
View ArticleSeattle Seahawk Julius Warmsley is a really nice guy
How do I know about this guy when I am such a dweeby loser in the sports department? Because we had him to our house this past Sunday for a family whooptidoo. Turns out he’s an old buddy of Jan’s...
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How I Spent My Last Few Days
A glorious last evening spent with our kids, some great blue herons, a still sky, boats bobbing gently on still blue water, a zillion bats, and the super-cutest grand-daughters in the world.
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Seraphim the Beauteous Really *Really* Likes Dogs
Imagine your best friend disappeared under mysterious circumstances and then years later you realized they they were still alive and were the lead singer of your favorite band and the star of your...
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Today’s the day they give babies away…
…with half a pound of butter! (sung to the tune “This is the Way We Wash our Clothes”).And with that traditional song of obstetrical heraldry, I am delighted to say that Mrs. Claire Shea, wife of Cow...
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It’s a Girl!
And her name is Charlotte Rose Shea. She weighed in at 9 lbs. 4 oz. So she’s a keeper. And she as figured out the eating thing immediately, thus proving that she is a Shea. Birth was about 1:30 PM...
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Writing a Sonnet to Your Wife
…is a fine way to spend a rainy Saturday afternoon in May. The Key to My Heart For Janet How can it be that I feel younger now, with you, than I did in grey youth? Grimly pacing the cage of my lonely...
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