http://www.juddhole.com Welcome to the JuddHole - Shameless self promotion and jackassery at it's best. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:19:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It was a Sunday afternoon and I’d found it the rare occasion that I wanted a nap. The baby was sleeping and Wife was happily occupied, so I climbed into bed and turned the TV on to a Disney movie where Bruce Willis was visited by his childhood self. It was cute ... http://www.juddhole.com/real/life-dream/ I get reminded as we walk out the front door that the children have been requested to bring flowers of some sort for the services this morning. Her brother is staying home because of a tummy ache, something that I worried may have been a figment of an overactive ... http://www.juddhole.com/real/anzac-day/ It was one of those nights that had an undercurrent of energy so subtle you can never be quite sure if it was positive or negative. All you really know at the time is that you can feel it, and you don't even really know that it will eventuate ... http://www.juddhole.com/real/joliet-sorry/ The kind of week that you’re pretty sure is going to be remembered in specifics for at least a month, and the kind of times that you know you’ll remember forever, are finally over.  Over, in the calendar sense only though, and their essence still lingers in the air like ... http://www.juddhole.com/real/breakfast-with-jadey/ Originally written sometime in December or early January, while simply sitting at my desk in my office. ———————————- The skychair and hammock swing quietly in the breeze outside my office window. There's something about the abundance of greenery as a backdrop that makes them look like lazy day companions instead of ... http://www.juddhole.com/real/my-office/ The following was written last May and then apparently forgotten about. I still wear my hat, not so much in the Summer heat, but when I'm feeling like I need reminded of why I'm doing what I'm doing. If bills are piling up and I've got sick kids home from ... http://www.juddhole.com/real/my-hat/ There comes a time in every writer's life that they realise they need to be writing, most times just for the sake of it. It doesn't have to be anything remotely resembling profound either, it just needs to be written. It feels like it has to come out. While this ... http://www.juddhole.com/real/a-place-to-write/ While I am typically never one to turn something BIG and FREE down when offered, my time being married with children has taught me a little bit about restraint. I'm still weak though, and when a man like my father-in-law, who is as afflicted as I perhaps worse, turned ... http://www.juddhole.com/h-for-toy/im-no-chevy-chase/ When it happened, I’m not certain, but it happened enough to eventually be one of those things that appears on the evening news and doesn’t anger or incite enough passion in any of us to prevent it from showing up again. While this can describe any number of things that one ... http://www.juddhole.com/jackass/what-will-we-call-our-favourite-shirts/ Whenever its occurred to me that I may be in danger of having my official Man Club card taken away, it's usually too late anyway and some serious smoovetalk is needed to keep my membership from being revoked. Sometimes all it takes is for me to wear my Harley boots around ... http://www.juddhole.com/chortling/i-built-a-baby-didnt-i/