Dan Lipka Web Log

I apologize for not blobbing over the last several months, but here are the things I can remember (in no particular order)… Now that the democrats have gained some power, why don’t they have an actual, tangible agenda. NFL kickers are horrible underpaid. Adam Vinatieri , perhaps the best, clutch kicker of all time, in his prime is getting 2,509,000. 23 Running backs get paid more including Taylor Chester. 33 Receivers get paid more, including Reggie Williams who gets more the 6 million a year. Molly can do anything. She can run, jump, play hide-and-seek, count to ten, knows about 15 letters, can repeat anything, can eat yogurt with a spoon, talk in sentences, star in puppet shows, tackle other children and dogs, enjoys jokes, bargains with me, puts money in a piggybank, colors, paints, spins, and a hundred other things. She is also pretty close to being able to ride a tricycle. She is also very creative for a little kid. I was doing an improvisation of this little piggy went to town, b

Pain, Anguish, Manic Denial, and Fear. Those are the words I would use to describe the dream I had last night. It was the saddest I had ever been first within the dream and then after I woke up. I have never been an emotional person and would say that I had never experienced any real, knock-you-on-your-face grief, but the feelings the shivered through my body and soul last night were overwhelmingly horrific and sad. Without going into too much detail (even though much of the dream in still echoing in my mind with full clarity), in the dream, Molly was some kind of very small toy-like thing and I looked away and when I turned back she was broken. In fits of anger and denial, I fought through tears to try to fix her, but nothing was working. I kept trying and wailing out every moment that I failed, as others looked down on me with confused pity. They didn’t know this toy was Molly, they didn’t know “that I spent more time with her over the past year than any of you spent with anyone”, wh