“Who drink the Apple Spider?”

Author

Trent Isaac
October 08, 2023

Last week, Fall Baby shifted gears into fast walking. Just in time for her birthday.

How did we celebrate Felicity’s Birthday?

We sat for a timeshare pitch, of course. To make it up to her (even though we went to Sea World the day after her birthday) we had a punkin’ themed birthday party at the park. We waited until the end of September for the weather to cool. But we were off by a week.

MomBrain continues to celebrate her favorite season — Fall.

And the mood is catching. Everyone emerged from our Summer Hibernation with brighter eyes. It even rained.

(Then it kept raining and everyone got stuck in traffic and my windshield wiper flew off the car and wow.)

The Irish Twins opened the refrigerator door to show me what mom had found at the store. To their surprise, on the shelf in front of them sat evidence that someone had already drunk several sips of the “Apple Spider.”

I told them it was Santa.

Speaking of Santa, the framer at Hobby Lobby had the audacity to invite JillFace to write a letter to Santa. In September. And I though Hobby Lobby was a Christian nation...

Remind me to tell you that uproarious episode in a later letter.

DadFace Directive

The part of the show where DadFace comes out and says a writing tip.

Today’s tip is on sorting your ideas as you get ready to write. The tip comes from The Classic Guide to Better Writing by Rudolph Flesch & A.H. Less.

To begin a writing project, the book states, start with a plan. List out your ideas on the subject you wish to write about. And:

…go through your list and look for items that belong together. Some of your ideas are only different ways of saying the same thing; some are big ideas for which other, smaller ideas are only examples or illustrations; some groups of two or three ideas are of the same kind.

To sort out your ideas, you need one main idea for each group; the others, if there are more, will be your examples, illustrations, or details. In other words, shuffle your ideas around for a while and see how they arrange themselves. If you are patient, they will.

I don’t always follow my tips or even my plans. Life doesn’t ever follow my plans, which means these emails have been a bit sporadic.

But stay tuned… because the email equivalent to nonstop Christmas music — blaring WAY too early in the year — is coming your way soon. What does that even mean?

I’ll keep you guessing…

May there ever be an element of suspense to this newsletter.

Even later,

—DadFace

P.S. — If you liked this letter, could you forward it on to someone who might get a kick out of this sort of thing? Let’s make Aunt Bertha proud and bring back email forwarding!