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In memory of Riley Ann

This is just so sad. On the one hand, justice has been served - Kimberly Dawn Trenor will be in prison for the rest of her life and her fellow inmates will probably try to kill her at every chance they get because she is such a despicable human being. But on the other hand it's impossible not to think about the awful things she did to her 2-year-old in July 2007 - things that tortured her and killed her. To read words from Kimberly's journal about the killing makes one want to vomit. What on earth is wrong with people? 

Be good to your baby girls. And to your baby boys. They are defenseless and 100% reliant on you, their parents. You are their caretakers and their heroes. How could you be anything but that to them?

John Duke on February 03, 2009 |

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THINGS PEOPLE ONCE SAID

  • "A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for." ~Unknown
  • "Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter." ~Joseph Addison
  • "There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself." ~John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994
  • "Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again." ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968
  • "There are three stages of a man’s life: He believes in Santa Claus, he doesn’t believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus." ~Unknown
  • "A father carries pictures where his money used to be." ~Unknown
  • "Disobedience is the infant’s first step toward autonomy." ~Lewis Mumford