Family


I’ll give you a trigger option

I’ll give you a trigger option: demolish Washington and return power to the people and the local governments where it belongs.
“Any real change requires the inclusion of a strong public option to promote competition and bring down costs,” she said in a news release. “If a vigorous public option is not included, it would be [...]

A milestone

In a family legacy where my grandparents just celebrated their 60th anniversary and both of our parents at about their 30th, we are celebrating our first milestone on the way to 60 with 5 years today!
In the past 5 years - we’ve grown in life experiences. We’ve grown the size of our family. We’ve grown [...]

Urban Gardening

Urban Gardening

We are blessed to have a garden apartment. And by “garden” I mean a 30×20 or so concrete slab. When we moved in there were edging blocks inartistically stacked in a square, minus a few made into a BBQ pit - that’s about all we had to work with. I hate renting because I’m not [...]

Rose Stimulus Package

Rose Stimulus Package

From Christmas until mid March we had the use of a car and as we’ve been locked in about a 3 mile radius for 2 1/2 years we took advantage of the opportunity to take weekend trips to explore the northeast. Or as I like to call it, we implemented the Rose stimulus package.
Sleepy Hollow

Mystic, [...]

A Valentines Day Treat

A Valentines Day Treat

We moved to New York, and my parents have suddenly gotten season tickets for every show that visits Atlanta. The last time Susanna and I went to a show was Les Miserables at least a year ago. So this weekend we decided to dump the kids on our friend Shannon (visiting from Toronto) and go [...]

Post Holidays Post

I haven’t blogged now since just before we left for the holidays. I have 12 draft articles, so more commentary to come but nothing finished so I thought I would give the 411 on the Rose Christmas.
TRAVEL
Saturday, December 20th I got up early, walked to the subway, took the subway downtown, walked to the NJ [...]

Jingle Bells on a White Christmas

Tomorrow we leave to drive to Atlanta. We considered flying and luckily decided against it as the snow is falling and flights are rumored to be as much as 2 days delayed. Micah has a song for the moment:

Daddy and his babies

Daddy and his babies

Richard Rose (the Sr)

Richard Rose (the Sr)

My wife asked me to do a post about my Grandpa Rose as she never got to meet him… he doesn’t much fit into just one post so we’ll see what happens here.

Life and Legacy
My grandfather was one of 7. Born in a very small Pennsylvania cabin to a Jewish mother and a drunkard [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving from 58th and Broadway at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade! Here is Micah happy:

And here is Micah not so happy as the Georgia Tech band goes by: