So how was your weekend? It rained here. My wife tells me it rains here every year at this time, and I just don’t seem to remember that. I don’t remember a lot of stuff. Every Memorial Day weekend I attempt to smoke a large hunk of meat for dinner. That is, I haul out [...]

He is risen! Michael, not so much. Happy Easter, everyone!

Yesterday marked one year since my wife had her heart attack. She and I rang in the new year in her hospital room, toasting with sparkling pear juice after a dinner of home made chicken noodle soup (her favorite). I’ve been ruminating about that, and how far we’ve come since then. On the plus side, [...]

It’s three days until Christmas. I have the week off from work. That is, I have a week off of my normal job. This week I’m full-time daddy. And to make things even more fun, I have a cold. On today’s planner is “Make Cookies” Since my wife is working, it’s just going to be [...]

There is little that can compare with the excruciating torture that is attending a civilized function with a bored five year old. Having bamboo shoots run under one’s fingernails is about as close as I could imagine. Last night sister S sang in her high school choir’s Christmas program, along with I believe seven hundred [...]

Here’s a sample of what goes on at Michael’s family’s house every Halloween. See, someone mentioned that she doesn’t bother decorating much for Halloween; all of her decorations fit in one little box. If I had my way, I’d need 2000 square feet of storage for all the stuff I’d have set up for Halloween. [...]

Today, Michael presents his rendition of that classic story “The Five Little Pumpkins.” Enjoy.

I don’t have any great wisdom to impart today. I don’t have any lofty observations. The fact is, fatherhood is most readily experienced in the day-to-day, detail work. Like planting one blade of grass at a time, day after day, year after year… then turning around much later in your life to see green rolling [...]

This is what happens when the kid finally runs roughshod over your very last strand of parental judgment, and then does his victory dance: To all the moms out there, we understand. We hope you had a very happy Mother’s Day anyway.

Today I put on the lab coat and nerdy glasses. I saw on the Today Show this morning that Al Roker was demonstrating that you can balance an egg on end today, since it’s the Vernal Equinox. Yeah. Just in case you were uninformed about the truth of this, let me just set the record [...]