little sketches of us…

This winter we taught Merayla how to make snow angels. She gets all excited about it and lays down and starts moving her arms and legs as fast as she can.

Well, now that the snow is almost gone, it’s no reason to stop making snow angels! Last week there was a little snow fall, and Merayla begged most of the morning to go out in it. She was playing happily, tromping around in the inch or two. Then suddenly, she laid down, started kicking her arms and legs, and cleared the whole area of snow. It’s a grass/dirt angel. It’s cute. And there’s a hand. It’s cute too.

It’s annual spoof time again at DHI. For those of you who are interested, it’s pretty much the one creative thing I get paid to write each year.

This year, I wrote two. One’s a spoof on the Economic Stimulus Plan (Don’t worry, Dad, the spoof is not actually liberal in nature so it should be readable) and the other is a fun, child-like story that spoofs on the fact that my boss can never find “his” chair that is somehow lower than all others in existence. (It’s broken.) If you have a few minutes, check them out and let me know what you think:

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