There are times when I think maybe Michael might be an alien. Sometimes I just can’t figure him out; what his motivations are, what his thought processes are, where his road is taking him. By this, I mean that he often does and says things that I simply cannot reason out. A few weekends ago [...]

We’re cruising down the road toward Michael’s school, ready for his second-to-last day. “Kidz Bop” CD #4 is playing, Michael’s current choice for drive-time musical accompaniment. We pass rows of houses, those infamous spinning trees, a set of apartment buildings and a construction site. My mind is abuzz with the usual mental din, the background [...]

Michael was tired, there was no doubt of that. After over two hours of play at his favorite vaguely space-themed play facility, he was clearly bored with all of the play structures and bounce houses and other venues of rambunctious physical activity. We could tell, as he was now stalking other children in hopes of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Last year, I sent up the red flags noting that Mother’s Circus Animal cookies were gone. Just a few weeks ago, I made a passing reference noting the fact that they’re back. Yes, my friends, it is true! Those phenomenal little frosted miracles are back, and as good as they always were. While it is [...]

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 country is slowly but surely being overwhelmed by an invasion of apostrophes. I’m not sure how they came or why their numbers are increasing, but I’m seeing them everywhere now, in places where they have no business at all: in pluralizations. For example: “dad’s”, “kid’s”, “mom’s”, “television’s”, etc. It’s like fingernails on a blackboard. [...]