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Please don’t let me become that grandparent
Having just spent the prior week at your Grandmother’s, I have amassed quite a bit of material about which to blog. At 80-something and 90-something, your Grandmother and Grandfather are very good predictors of what you could expect from me when I get older (yes, there are older people than me, son). I say “could” […]
I’m not depressed; I’m serotoninally challenged
November 18, 2011
Son, there’s this stuff called serotonin. It lubricates your neurons or something. Apparently well-oiled neurons help ensure that you’re mentally healthy, happy and generally OK with things. If you don’t have much of it then your brain’s all out of whack and you’re depressed and generally pissy. Healthy people make serotonin and pump it around […]
6 important considerations before you start to procreate
November 1, 2011
Welcome to the fifth instalment of WTF Wednesday where there are no stupid questions. I can’t make the same promise about the answers, however. Today’s question comes from an anonymous person, via one of the search engines, who writes: Dear IBMP, What are the things to be considered to be a parent? It’s great […]
The alternate dimension my son calls reality
October 30, 2011
OK, son, let’s discuss reality. Both of them: yours and mine. See, mine is the one in which money doesn’t miraculously appear just because we want to spend it. In my reality dogs don’t like when kids try to ride them across the living room; fish actually die if you choose not to feed them; […]
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I've become my parents 
December 30, 2011
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