My Life As A Doggerel

Is Misbehavin', 11/9/09

noreply@blogger.com (Jon Sherman) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:26:00 +0000

Zachary. What do we do

With a little boy who acts like you?

Are you jealous or worried?

Your temper's so hurried

I just hope all this shall pass, too.

A Driving Force, 11/8/09

noreply@blogger.com (Jon Sherman) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:31:00 +0000

I'd like to drive a limousine

Not so that I would be seen

But so when my boys

Will not stop making noise

I could raise the privacy screen.

Saturday Night Fiver, 11/7/09

noreply@blogger.com (Jon Sherman) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:35:00 +0000

When you're a girl turning five

Apparently you want to jive

'Cause tonight we will go

To a birthday disco

Celebrating some stayin' alive.

I see some blue paint and I want to drink it all, 11/6/09

noreply@blogger.com (Jon Sherman) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:33:00 +0000

When you're barely older than two

I suppose it's expected that you

Will sometimes ingest

Things that really aren't best

For your stomach... and make your poo blue.

The Writing Bug, 11/5/09

noreply@blogger.com (Jon Sherman) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:10:00 +0000

If the screenwriting bug has you bitten,

And with visions of glamour, you're smitten

That feeling you've got

Is assuredly not

About writing. It's about having written.

Grown-up Proofing, 11/4/09

noreply@blogger.com (Jon Sherman) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:34:00 +0000

It's like a breath of fresh air

Having no baby gate on the stair

And yet I still try

When I'm passing by

To avoid it, though it isn't there.

Kinderview, 11/3/09

noreply@blogger.com (Jon Sherman) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:00:00 +0000

The interview went, as it should

With us praising our eldest as good:

Creative, insightful!

Completely delightful!

They would love him, I think, Wildwood.

The Switchwitch, 11/2/09

noreply@blogger.com (Jon Sherman) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:49:00 +0000

Each year after candy's collected

And the Halloween spoils dissected

The Switchwitch comes back

With a toy in her sack

For the candy that you have rejected.

No Good Deed, 11/1/09

noreply@blogger.com (Jon Sherman) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:45:00 +0000

At our preschool it was "Mitzvah Day"

When we take our kids and duly say:

"We're here to help others.

Sick kids, with no mothers."

And they respond, "when can we play?"

Happy Halloween! 10/31/09

noreply@blogger.com (Jon Sherman) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:33:00 +0000

That rock 'n' roll dude sure looks mean

But that pirate's the cutest I've seen

And they're coming for you

So what will you do?

Give them candy -- Happy Halloween!

'Twas the night before Halloween, 10/30/09

noreply@blogger.com (Jon Sherman) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:20:00 +0000

My children can hardly believe

The candy they're set to receive

That they border on spastic,

So enthusiastic

Are they this All Hallows' Eve's Eve.

Daylight savings, 10/29/01

noreply@blogger.com (Jon Sherman) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:20:00 +0000

I'd just like to thank Nate and Zach

Who no longer wake in pitch black

Which makes for a fun day...

Or it will until Sunday

When we have to turn the clocks back.

The wind blows, 10/28/09

noreply@blogger.com (Jon Sherman) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:03:00 +0000

Summer left us last night, in a huff

It's heat, it seems, had had enough

And so gave way to

The winds, how they blew

Knocking over a bunch of our stuff.

Newsunworthy, 10/27/09

noreply@blogger.com (Jon Sherman) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:41:00 +0000

My nightstand is starting to creak

Beneath issues unread, so I'll seek

Out a new magazine,

One that I haven't seen:

News-somewhat-less-than-a-week.

Pick up game, 10/26/09

noreply@blogger.com (Jon Sherman) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:15:00 +0000

As lawyerly legal tricks go,

This one's kinda starting to blow:

I'm not bound, yet not free

Because technically

They haven't yet picked up the show.

A four year-old, the three ages of dinosaurs, and two slackjawed parents, 10/25/09

noreply@blogger.com (Jon Sherman) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:12:00 +0000

It's apparent his brain is capacious

As tonight he once more got loquacious

Telling us how he knows

The geology goes

Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous.

Boys in the back seat, 10/24/09

noreply@blogger.com (Jon Sherman) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:50:00 +0000

Screaming like a banshee, a

Disobedient cacophony, the

Time that we'd had

Gone from lovely to bad...

And then came the diarrhea.

Optimism, 10/23/09

noreply@blogger.com (Jon Sherman) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:40:00 +0000

It might be too early to say

But it's possible that this screenplay

Is starting to break

And we just might make

A movie that's halfway okay.

Technical difficulties, 10/22/09

noreply@blogger.com (Jon Sherman) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:07:00 +0000

Yesterday, I tried to write

A limerick for this website

But it could not be posted

For the place that it's hosted

Was apparently down for the night.

"You came back!" 10/21/09

noreply@blogger.com (Jon Sherman) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:17:00 +0000

At last, little, one you've adjusted

To preschool, decided you trusted

Things would be okay

While Mommy's away

Which is nice. Cause her patience was busted.

I changed our flights from China, the least you can do is smile, 10/20/09

noreply@blogger.com (Jon Sherman) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:23:00 +0000

Having flown back to LA

Just in time for the kids' picture day

We fully expect

That the pics will reflect

This sacrifice that we have made.

Home again, home again, 10/19/09

noreply@blogger.com (Jon Sherman) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:08:00 +0000

Our flight to Chicago, delayed

So there in Columbus we stayed

Then moved heaven and earth

And through Dallas/Ft. Worth

With a connection we barely made.

East vs. West, 10/18/09

noreply@blogger.com (Jon Sherman) — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:07:00 +0000

The cuisine of the Orient shows

That virtually anything goes

But the cuisine of Columbus

Is less of a rumpus

And this evening consists of Rubino's.

Not getting the memo, 10/17,09

noreply@blogger.com (Jon Sherman) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:00:00 +0000

I guess no one told OSU

That it's Wede's birthday, and to

Not lose the game

'Cause that'd be kind of lame

When she's 90 and it's just Purdue.

China, in hindsight, 10/16/09

noreply@blogger.com (Jon Sherman) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:49:00 +0000

Skip the train to Tibet, take the flight.

Skip seeing doggies that bite.

And once in Beijing

Just stay there, don't wing

Straight away to Xi'an for one night.