Fame

Here's the Gazette story from yesterday. I couldn't believe how prominently they featured our picture--and in full color! Thank God it was a good one.

I'm told that it might be a little creepy that I "comb the obituaries" for name ideas--but you just look at them some time, and try and tell me that there aren't some gems in there.

Click here to read the article... oh, and don't miss the fact that our friend, Cindy, was also quoted! (I sold her out, gave her name to the reporter.)

Media Darling

I'm only telling you this because you might feel a little put out if I didn't tell you . . . I've gotten a few phone calls from friends today squealing about the fact that my picture is in the paper AGAIN today (Ted and Arlo too this time)--check out the Cedar Rapids Gazette, somewhere around page 6A, I think? I haven't seen it yet.

A Gazette reporter interviewed me a couple of weeks ago for a story she was writing about baby naming, and the story is scheduled to appear in this Sunday's paper. They sent a photographer to our house to take pictures of me and the boys by our front door. What's in the paper today, I'm told, is a "teaser"-- a little promo bit to try to get people to want to buy the paper this Sunday, and it features our happy little family.

Watch for the story on Sunday. I hope I don't come off looking/sounding like a total dweeb.