Category Archives: Family
Forgive Me, Father, For I Have Sinned.
With a name like Shanahan, I understandably take my boiled dinners seriously. Although I have fallen over the years into that habit where I only do a good corned beef and cabbage around St. Patrick’s Day like the rest of … Continue reading
Visions of Sugarplums
Needless to say, your host is a trifle busy this weekend. Getting the place ready for the Big Guy in Red, prepping the tranquilizer gun to get the kids to go sleep at a decent hour, deciding which bourbon daddy … Continue reading
Filed under Family, Life, The Little Things
The Shanahan Family Head-Down No-Peeking It’s-Not-Christmas-Yet Bathroom Dash
Now there’s a title that’s bound to attract some attention. Christmas, as parents all know, is the most wonderful time of the year because we get to lie to our children with wild abandon and liberally use the looming spectre … Continue reading
Filed under Family, Humor, Life, The Little Things
Doin’ It in the Dark
All things considered, we came through Hurricane–ahem, tropical storm Irene quite well at our house. Down the street one family had a tree crash across three cars parked side-by-side in the driveway. My sister, a town over, had an oak … Continue reading
Ridin’ the Storm Out
The Pennsylvania sky split in a hundred places, savaged by lightning and bullied by thunder. Winds roughly shoved a wall of rain into a sharp diagonal. In front of us, four life-sized Muppets were singing a song about a sunny … Continue reading
Filed under Family, Life, The Little Things
