Vacation is officially over. It’s time to head back to work, school and other standard occupations.
After we’ve fully enjoyed the holidays, we are curtly shoved out into the dark, dour epoch that stretches on until the next official holiday. We must endure a cold, bleak existence until February, when we come skidding up to Valentine’s [...]

Since I’m still without an original thought extremely busy, I’m dragging another post out of the archives. I originally posted this on The Anthill some years ago. Feel free to smirk if you believe it merits such.
So I’m watching the news and a story comes on about an attempted robbery that left the suspect unconscious.
The [...]

Lately I have been buried in my work. It’s the nature of this particular field, and something I’m used to.
As such, over the past few weeks I have not been able to attend to some of the more peripheral things in my world, such as the page you are currently reading. Even some of the [...]

Michael’s five. He’s going to be starting kindergarten this fall. He’s not a toddler or even a preschooler any more.
Not too long ago it hit me how much I miss the time when Michael was very small.
And I’m not as much wistful about it as I am annoyed. Despite my very vocal proclamations of relief [...]

Sometimes, as a dad, you realize too late that your bluster was unwarranted. And you get a little lesson in humility.
During the time between Halloween and Thanksgiving of last year, I had one of those days.
Actually I’d had several in succession but this was a real doozy. I’ll spare you the details. Suffice it [...]

It’s a brisk, damp fall morning. I’ve just gotten Michael out of the van, and we’re walking toward Ms K’s.
Michael looks down on the sidewalk in front of her house.
“Hey, look at all these monies!”
“Money?” I ask. “Where?”
“All over the ground!” He stirs the leaves with his foot. “See?”
“The leaves are money?”
“Yeah!”
I hope you [...]

The end of one season is the beginning of another. Let us all pray for positive.