I find it very strange we can spend 40 hours a week with people, for years, but never allow them further than the parking lot, into our lives. This is normal for American life, 5 days out of the week. Of course there are a small few who get invited to happy hours and lunches…
Another school year is in the books and this one has been a tumultuous one. Here is what we have learned: High School: This was a year of trust and letting go. It was another lesson that parenting is not painted with a broad stroke but with fine lines on individual canvases. “All good things…
I remember as if it were yesterday. I woke up at 6:00 AM to the phone ringing. It was her. It was not like I needed to be awakened, I hardly slept the night before. I wasn’t allowed to see her but no one said I couldn’t talk to her. We were like children on…
I was talking to a friend of mine the other night about motorcycles and it triggered a memory I had about my oldest son and trains. Yeah that is how my brain works, I talk about motorcycles with my friends and I remember trains, go figure. My son, who is now 19, had a love…
If you search the Internet, you will see a plethora of articles and posts on the common designation of parents when it comes to sports. I will rattle off a few but they are not the focus of this post: The Investor – “My child is going to play college ball and someday make the…
For some reason Atheist groups find a need to attack religious beliefs at this time. Maybe they feel upset because of all the attention given to religion two times a year, Christmas and Easter, and they wish to have their humanism or secularism recognized everyday. Maybe they are scorned because they feel they had religion…
It is Christmas season. Well Advent starts next Sunday but lets not quibble over details. Henceforth I will be: Making Merriment everywhere I goRisking my life trying to Griswold my house, at the chagrin of my wife. Yes Griswold is now a verb.Watching Christmas cartoons created in the 60s while my children roll their eyes…
He wanted to play linebacker just like his favorite football player, his big brother. It was a position he knew well, having earned the right to play it in middle school. Middle School, however, is over. This is high school with a new set of coaches and a new set of challenges but, also an…
When my son came home and told us he had to have a “Mum” for his date for Homecoming, our response was: “What the Hell is a mum!?. You are getting her a flower in the corsage we’ll make sure its a mum. Gosh they are picky about the type of flowers for dances here,…
It was 5:00 PM and I was alone at work, after hours in my cubicle, but I was not working. Instead, I was sitting in front of my computer sulking with my arms crossed, pissed off at God, my wife and the world. I mean I was fuming pissed off. “Why would you put this…
