My name is Sean Parsons.  I pretty much have no idea what I’m doing in general, and even less so with twins.  I was thrust into this twin thing on April 29, and am now tired, cranky, and generally fairly belligerent.  I’m almost certain this isn’t going to change one bit.

Outside of being a growing failure as a father, I’m a musician.  I have a full time job as a professor teaching jazz and piano.  I love what I do and wouldn’t change it for anything unless I got paid significantly better to do less or had to go to prison and had a career change making license plates.

I grew up in a moderately small area in Illinois, got some relatively unemployable degrees (Bachelor’s in Music Composition from Illinois Wesleyan University, Master’s in Jazz Studies from DePaul University, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Performance/Jazz Studies from the University of Illinois, by the time I was 27), and now live in the hills of West Virginia.  Well, I live in Ohio, but out here it’s pretty much the same thing. I apparently am the one who speaks with an accent, has funny ideas, and was believed to have been on work release while shopping at Lowes. 

I live with my stupidly patient wife Jen (she is a kinder, smarter, and more pleasant person than I and has her own blog here), 3 dogs (an australian shepherd, german shepherd mix, and border collie/sheltie mix), an indoor cat, 2 horses (a quarter horse and appaloosa) a veterinarian approved colony of barn/outdoor cats, some fish in a pond, and an African grey parrot who hates me unless I give her bananas.  Oh yeah, and 2 babies who hate me as best I can tell.

I like wheat beer, am addicted to grilling, drive a 1984 Mercedes 300DT that I converted myself to run on vegetable oil, am really getting into photography with my D60, am addicted to Apple products, love to play with my Wii, and hope to be knighted some day.  I’d like to be king or mayor of a small town some day, whichever is easiest or comes first.

Please send email to - parsons.sean@mac.com.  Follow us on twitter - @mylifewithtwins

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