Jacob Warren Barczi

On Saturday morning, July 19, at 8:30am, Jacob Warren (aka Frogger) Barczi was born at Cambridge Hospital.  He weighed in at 8 pounds, 9.4 ounces and was 20.5 inches long.  He has a full head of hair, is a natural-born eater, and, in my humble opinion, is in all other ways simply perfect.  He’s amazingly [...]

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Tenth Sunday* after Pentecost

‘Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it… Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved away into different worlds, and there [...]

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What’s this – why, I have a blog!

I’ve recently been called out by a friend for allowing my blog to become ‘boring’. Surprisingly, he was referring not to the posts themselves, but to the recent lack of updates. He was right, of course – it’s been nearly a month since I posted anything other than my weekly Sunday quotes (more [...]

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I’m a bad son

One of the original points of this blog, as suggested by its opening entry, was to post updates on Frogger’s progress. To this point, computer problems and my own laziness about taking pictures of anything have meant no posts of that sort. Here, then – the to this point ONLY picture taken of [...]

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Frogger is kicking…

…since yesterday, hard enough for me to feel it.  The child is still small enough that it’s just cute (and a bit strange, and entirely amazing), but if it keeps up this level of activity as it grows I may have to have my first father-child discussion about treating the mother’s internal organs with respect.

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Meet Frogger

Hmmm, how to open this blog? Let’s see, let’s see…
Oh – I know.

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow. We are grateful, we are humbled; we are terrified and rejoicing.

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