Papa Sparks by the numbers

Days until I am with Aon, Jeremy Aaron and Bia:  50
 
Pages I’ve completed on my novel about Korea:  98
 
Kilometers I ran at the gym on the treadmill in one hour: 10
 
Kilograms I have lost since May 1st:  25
 
Slices of pizza I can eat while watching a “pizza movie” (a movie that goes well with an [...]

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Papa Sparks by the numbers

Papa Sparks by the numbers for Monday October 26, 2009:
56 more days until I am with Aon, Jeremy Aaron and Bia; 97 pages of my novel completed; 10 kilometers in 60 minutes on the treadmill today.

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Brotherly Love

There’s no other love like the love for a brother. There’s no other love like the love from a brother.
– Astrid Alauda
One day, when my wife Aon was pregnant with our son Jeremy Aaron, our oldest son Bia (pronounced Bee-ah) wanted to touch Aon’s belly. He was curious why she had gotten so big [...]

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100,000 Page Visits and Counting

Oh, do not ask, “What is it?” Let us go and make our visit.
When I visited my blog this afternoon, I was in for a pleasant surprise: I reached the 100,000 page visits milestone.
It’s nice to know that my blog has received as much attention as it has since I started keeping one a few [...]

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Happy One-Year Birthday Jeremy Aaron!

“If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the [...]

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Where Jeremy Aaron goes, laughter & giggles follow

Aon couldn’t have asked for a better birthday present: Jeremy Aaron decided to wait until her birthday to get his little legs a moving and spent the whole day, according to Aon, when I called her last night, walking everywhere.
While I was talking to Aon last night I could hear Jeremy Aaron laughing and giggling [...]

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Vientiane – Gateway for your Laos Adventure

Hugging a bend along the Mekong River as it winds south between Thailand and Laos, Vientiane first appears a rather non-assuming town with a mixture of French, Chinese and Vietnamese-style buildings interspersed among Buddhist temples and modern structures.
Busy and hectic compared to the rest of the country, with a population just a little over 200,000 [...]

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That’s one small step for a baby; one giant leap for Jeremy Aaron

News Bulletin
We interrupt your regularly scheduled blog reading with this story just in from Vientiane, Laos:
Jeremy Aaron has started walking.
Chiu Inthavong, a.k.a. Aon reported from the capital city of Laos this morning that eleven-and-half month-old Jeremy Aaron has taken his first solo steps and, according to the proud mama, Jeremy Aaron is A-okay.
“He had been [...]

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The unexamined life is not worth living — Personal Favorites & Popular Posts #1

Since I started blogging a little over five years ago I’ve blogged about all kinds of topics and subjects from the birth of Jeremy Aaron and my life in Asia to waxing nostalgic about growing up in the 1960s/1970s and serving in the United States Air Force.
With over 1200 posts, I have some personal favorites, [...]

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Jeremy Aaron at 10 months: Exploring the world around him

Not about to watch the world pass him by, Jeremy Aaron at 10 months is exploring this wonderful world around him. He’s always on the go—crawling everywhere, beginning to stand up on his own, and even trying to walk a few steps. That’s one small step for Jeremy Aaron—that sort of thing.
In fact, he knows [...]

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